# animate! › Films › Hotel Central by Matt Hulse › synopses

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

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

### 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.

### short synopsis

We are floating somewhere between **Les Vacances de M. Hulot** and **The Exorcist**, thirty miles southwest of Leipzig, holding onto our hats.

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