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    Hotel Chelsea - Köln

    Tanya Ury 1995 Germany Experimental color 28min German Betacam
    The hotel: a place where travelers and/or lovers rendezvous or rest; a visit possibly forgotten in its transience or remembered by its intensity. The title suggests a connection with the USA by its namesake in New York. So, while sleeping in Germany, the visitor may dream away continents and escape to cold-war-distant America. 1995, the year in which, fifty years later, the end of the war and the liberation of the concentration camps are remembered in Europe, "Hotel Chelsea – Köln", the video, filmed site specifically, is an unlikely memorial.

    Director

    Tanya Ury

    Since 1988 Ury has produced video, performance (including improvised poetry with musicians) and lectures for universities, exhibitions, conferences and festivals. She has made photographic and holographic art, created objects, audio texts and installation. She is also active as a writer (articles, short stories, poetry) and curator. Tanya Ury has shown her work extensively in: England, Ireland, Scotland, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Canada, Taiwan, Israel, USA, Colombia, the Czech Republic and Sweden.

    Tanya Ury

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