Jairo Ferreira – Horror Palace Hotel (1978)
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(…) Ferreira finest and most political film is Horror Palace Hotel. This forty-minute piece does many things at once: it is an essay about the state of Brazilian cinema, which unfortunately has not yet dated enough; a spot-on look at how film functions within a film festival; a haunted house movie; and a contagious narrative. It was shot during the 1978 Brasilia Film Festival, where a small horror sidebar is going on, in the hotel where everyone that works around the festival (filmmakers, journalists) is staying. This most angry of Ferreira’s films, it is his most focused on achieving, through close observation and a perfect structure, both physical precision and an ambitious allegorical tendency. Using Rogério Sganzerla as a guide and José Mojica Marins as a main object, Horror Palace Hotel slowly arrives at its central targets by transgressing all borders. The horror sidebar becomes something much larger, thanks to Ferreira’s camera: it becomes whole repressed history of Brazilian cinema. Horror, we learn, is not just a genre there anymore, but everything that does not fit into official history; the film thus restages an invasion of the official event by those who represent the repressed. A new history of cinematic forms takes over.
Horror Palace Hotel 1978 576p BluRay DD2.0 x264-nosferato.mkv
General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 40 min 43 s
Size: 1.16 GiB
Video
Codec: x264
Resolution: 786x576
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Frame rate: 23.976 fps
Bit rate: 3 800 kb/s
BPP: 0.350
Audio
#1: Portuguese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 256 kb/s
Language(s):Portuguese
Subtitles:English
