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Hidden Hotel
One Hotel, located in Kabul, Afghanistan was the stuff of legend until the artist Mario Garcia Torres made the film “Tea” for last year’s Documenta in Kassel (Germany). Rendered off the map by time and transition, the hotel opened in 1971 and was owned and operated by the Italian artist Alighiero Boetti and a friend, Gholam Dastaghir, for six years. This “off place” was Boetti’s sanctuary and a kind of absolution. Decades after its closure, and long since a lapse into obscurity Garcia Torres made a film about finding: the hotel, artistic process, even certain truths. The film reconstructs layers of the past, overlaid like detritus on the façade and structure of the One Hotel, through narration, photographs, and video footage of the search.
(jb)Video: “Tea” Trailer directed by Mario García Torres, 2012. Image: Unknown photographer, One Hotel, Kabul, 1971
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