Jan Soldat 2014, documentary, 26’56“
miniDV / DCP, colour, 4:3, 25fps, mono, German with English subtitles
Synopsis
This hotel is not a comfort zone, but a military flavored prison, and his gay guests can be chained before they get disciplined. To outsiders, the scenery seem bizarre – but as always, it helps to recognize the peculiar in debt. Between delivery rituals there are friendly chats, but especially in the documentary observation of this German SM bondage role play there are flashing moments of real tenderness. So it’s also a comfort zone, somehow.
Team
Direction
Cinematography
Editing
Subtitles
Production
Jan Soldat
Jan Soldat
Jan Soldat
Alex Demetriou / queersubs.weebly.com
Jan Soldat
Screenings
Viennale ’14 / Porny Days Zürich 2014 /New York Porn Film Festival 2015 / 7th GO Short Nijmegen / Stadtkino Künstlerhaus Wien / 12th Indielisboa / 21th Encounters Short Film Festival Bristol / 10th Vilnius International Short Film Festival / 19th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival / 32th Helsinki Short Film Festival / 3rd Transcinema Peru / 13th London Short Film Festival / 9th Glasgow short film festival / 11th Vilnius International Short Film Festival / Belvedere 21 Museum Vienna / Randfilmfest Kassel / Erotic Edge Mumbai
Awards
Best Documentary Short – 7th GO Short Nijmegen
Critic
„Remember life“
(BFI)
„with normalising humour and tenderness“
(Dazed Digital)
„Sentir aqueles que nada têm a esconder“
(Jorge Mourinha)
„Cada sesión como una ruta a lo desconocido“
(Revista Magnolia)
Interview zu Hotel Straussberg
(Watson)
„afstandelijke intieme taferelen weergeven“
(Kortfilm.be)
Jan Soldat 