Hotel Monterey is a structuralist film, ironic given that there is no structure. The film feels like someone wanted to make a 5-minute short about a hotel, went out and shot a full tape of footage, and then decided to include everything in the final product. People in the hotel look into the camera, back away from it, and smile at it. There is no audio, not even ambient noise, so the ambient sounds in my own viewing environment became the soundtrack for the film. People talking about art, going out to lunch, construction workers grinding at the pavement downstairs (I watched this in my studio). There are some great shot in here, some I would love to call my own and use them in my own hotel video. But right now i don’t think I can appreciate something like this.