A composição do espaço em hotel Monterey: aproximações entre Chantal Akerman e Gertrude Stein

Abstract

This dissertation establishes a connection between the film Hotel Monterey (1972), by Chantal Akerman, and the aesthetic-textual thought of Gertrude Stein's landscape plays. The study is conducted through a juxtaposition: a meticulous analysis of the film, delving into its compositional paradigms — such as form, lines, colors, relationships constructed within and between shots, and duration — thus observing how the concrete and the abstract coexist in the work; and an investigation into the concept of the landscape play, unfolding the writer's main aesthetic ideas and deepening the analysis of some of her plays in order to relate certain characteristic aspects to the studied film. The homology I propose acknowledges the difference between artistic media (film and writing) and is limited to broadening the analyses of Hotel Monterey, placing it in dialogue (nothing more than that) with certain tools inherent to Stein’s writing.