The Occidental Hotel

“The Occidental Hotel is a “city” film—I was inspired to emulate the Surrealists’ sense of wandering, of flaneury, of the way a hotel and its rooms is a temporary resting place inhabited by many many people, a shared public/private space. I am interested in a creative geography of the city I've constructed. For instance, the front of the hotel is from Berlin, its interior was photographed in Copenhagen. The film offers the elliptical “scent” of espionage films (largely because of its Berlin locations) and offers that genre’s lubricating sense of voyeurism, danger, and sexuality. My source materials are Mexican comic-book figures, and these urban photos I snapped on my honeymoon with my wife Janie Geiser in the summer of 1996.” —Lewis Klahr

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Drink

Device

Device

1996

The Way to My Father’s Village

The Way to My Father’s Village

1988

Sermons and Sacred Pictures

Sermons and Sacred Pictures

1989

My Mother’s Place

My Mother’s Place

1990

Prelude

Prelude

Man.Road.Cars.

2003

Man.Canoe.Ocean

2005

Shooting Star

1970

SWEET DREAMS

1970

A WOMAN DISTRESSED

1962

GAUDÍ

GAUDÍ

1972

Black '67

Black '67

1967

Plastic Blag

1968

Planes

1968

GHOST REV

1963

Human Events

Human Events

1975

NYC

NYC

1976

The Glass System

The Glass System

2000