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Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) 2022 is pleased to present individual submissions created under the digital initiative…
The Luxe Hotel
by Matthew Kohn
Country: United States | Running Time: 21 Language: English | Year Of Inception: 2022
About The Luxe Hotel
Luxe Hotel is a durational theater piece that was performed at the 2021 Chashama Gala over two six-hour events. The story: An Assailant bursts in on The Survivor and The Witness in a hotel bedroom. The Assailant removes The Witness by force and then begs forgiveness from The Survivor. Then The Assailant brings in a new Witness.
Fusing mime, butoh, fake slow motion, and dance, 20 actors created their own characters in secret. Then they learned specific physical actions which would bring out a cycle of violence and reconciliation – 70 unique performances.
In the documentary, the audience will see excerpts of the piece and hear from the actors and key creators: Barbara Nitke, Michael Wiener, Tony Torn, Roy Koshy, Laura Pruden, Sasha K. Gordon, Julia Cavagna, Amanda Jane Stern, Yokko, Charles Everett, Robert McKeon, Josefina Scaro, Rolls Andre, Ben Becher, Vera Beren, Aurora Heimbach, Awesta Zarif and Vanessa Walters, Kendall Dupre, Cori Kresge, and Chris Michaelson and director Matt Kohn.
About Matthew Kohn
Most well known for his feature documentary, CALL IT DEMOCRACY, a film about the injustice of voting within the system of the Electoral College, filmmaker Matt Kohn (mattkohn.net) has crafted stories from truth and poetry in Mexico, France, Germany, Ukraine, the UK, Iceland, Chad, Uganda, Sudan, South Sudan, and South Africa . This travel speaks to Matt Kohn’s second feature, OUR TALL MAN, a documentary about South Sudanese NBA star Manute Bol in his home country working to create a system of education that would benefit everyone.
Matt shot parts of the Academy Award short listed HBO film HEART OF A DOG for Laurie Anderson, as well as her projects Delusion and Habeus Corpus, featuring a former Guantanamo Bay detainee. He also produced CHARLIE VICTOR ROMEO, the first 3D Feature Film at the Sundance Film Festival. The film re-enacts blackbox recordings to harrowing effect.
For many years, Matt curated guests for his monthly film screening series, SPEAKEASY CINEMA at TORN PAGE, awarded Village Voice’s “Best of NY 2016.” for the category of “film date night.”
Matt graduated Brandeis University with a degree in Political Science, with an emphasis in film studies and feminist political theory.
About The Festival
The Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) is an annual event showcasing films drawn from the world of theatre and performance. The festival presents experimental, emerging, and established theatre artists and filmmakers from around the world to audiences and industry professionals. The 7th annual festival will focus on work for the screen created by theatre artists during the Time of Corona. The festival will be held digitally from March 1st – 15th 2022.
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