Hôtel Wolfers
TITLE
Hôtel Wolfers
DIRECTOR
Dora García
COUNTRY
Belgium
YEAR
2007
DURATION
12′
GENRE
Experimental
Hôtel Wolfers
Filmed inside the Hôtel Wolfers in Brussels, designed by Henry van de Velde, the camera slowly moves through the building’s empty interiors, observing its architecture in black and white. Over these images, a male voice narrates Samuel Beckett’s Film (1965), creating a deliberate disconnect between the space being filmed and the story being told. Through this tension between image and sound, Dora García explores looking and being looked at, the relationship between camera and spectator, and the desire to disappear while remaining under observation.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Dora García
Dora García (born 1965, Valladolid, Spain) is a Spanish contemporary artist and filmmaker whose multidisciplinary practice encompasses experimental film, video, performance, installation, and text. Her work explores the boundaries between reality and fiction, often examining questions of control, freedom, identity, and the relationship between performer and audience. García studied Fine Arts at the University of Salamanca and at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Since the late 1990s, she has developed a body of work that frequently combines scripted situations, performance, and moving image. Her films include The Breathing Lesson (2001), The Deviant Majority (2010), The Joycean Society (2013), Segunda Vez (2018), and Amor Rojo (2024). Her work has been presented internationally at major exhibitions and festivals, including the Venice Biennale, documenta, Manifesta, and the Sydney and São Paulo Biennials. In 2011, she represented Spain at the 54th Venice Biennale. In 2021, she was awarded Spain’s National Award for Plastic Arts in recognition of her innovative and interdisciplinary artistic practice.
- DirectorDora García
- Screenplay
- Cinematography
- Cast
- Editing
- Producer/s Dora García
- Production Company
- Distributor/s
- Project TitleHôtel Wolfers
- Project Type Experimental
- Completion Date01 Jan 2007
- Country of originBelgium
- Country of filmingBelgium
- LanguageEnglish
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student ProjectNo
Dora García
Dora García (born 1965, Valladolid, Spain) is a Spanish contemporary artist and filmmaker whose multidisciplinary practice encompasses experimental film, video, performance, installation, and text. Her work explores the boundaries between reality and fiction, often examining questions of control, freedom, identity, and the relationship between performer and audience. García studied Fine Arts at the University of Salamanca and at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Since the late 1990s, she has developed a body of work that frequently combines scripted situations, performance, and moving image. Her films include The Breathing Lesson (2001), The Deviant Majority (2010), The Joycean Society (2013), Segunda Vez (2018), and Amor Rojo (2024). Her work has been presented internationally at major exhibitions and festivals, including the Venice Biennale, documenta, Manifesta, and the Sydney and São Paulo Biennials. In 2011, she represented Spain at the 54th Venice Biennale. In 2021, she was awarded Spain’s National Award for Plastic Arts in recognition of her innovative and interdisciplinary artistic practice.
