# animate! › Films › Hotel Central by Matt Hulse

Canonical: https://animate.org.uk/films/hotelcentral/

Discovery terms: 2000s animation, travel, disorientation, experimental short film, filmmaker, artist

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**Hotel Central** a film by Matt Hulse

2000, 9 min 52 sec

![Hotel Central, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/hotelcentral01.jpg)

### a film by Matt Hulse

### animate! synopsis

Hats on for this journey into an old country past. Room service with a difference: the phone rings in the wardrobe or the wilds. Nobody and everyman home. A grab bag of styles help us to feel like a man adrift in woodland.

### key credits

**director**
Matt Hulse

**guest**
Joost Van Veen

**lighting camera**
Roel van de Maaden

**animation**
Matt Hulse

**editor**
Hozger Mohaupt

**music**
A Normal Boy

**sound designer**
Gerald Mair

**producer**
Aimara Reques

**Hotel Central** film, stills and other materials © Matt Hulse 2000