Hotel Lobby cast and crew

Horace and Colt are stranded late at night in a foreign land. They have lost the key to their room and to each other. An enigmatic figure, Diana, provokes another journey. Erotic and harrowing, this forbidden underworld of yearning and confession permits the release of all that has been silenced.

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HORACE (Stephen Keep Mills)

“If I reach for you and you draw away, what am I to think? I am not wanted by you. Your intimacies do not include me. There is nothing naked about me you wish to know.”

DIANA (Svetlana Efremova)

“Now. My mouth needs your mouth. My chest, your chest. My belly, your belly. Fingers. Take my fingers. Take them way above my head. Keep them there and find the way--in. Desire must guide. Urgency finds the way. Now. Oh.”

DIANA (Svetlana Efremova (R) whispers to COLT (L) played by Jennifer Griffin)

“That moment is the instant of our divinity. Feel in that moment--the rise of your importance--and their descent. Let them beg for you, Goddess. Issue a decree or two. Demand in that moment the return of all that was ever stolen.”

COLT to HORACE (Jennifer Griffin (L), Stephen Keep Mills (R)

“Are you positively drunk?”

HORACE

“Certainly not.”

COLT

“Well, I feel you most certainly are. It is the only accurate description for your behavior that I can think of. Talking to strangers as if they weren't strangers. As if they were familiar. And this will stop. You'd better remember who we are and tend to that instead of behaving as if you were at a Parish Hall social. Not that even there you would speak to so common a girl as this.”

HORACE

“Is she common?”

On location - Stephen Keep Mills (Writer) and Jenny Foster (Director)

get a thumbs up from Jim Lakin in the Sound Dept. as

Jason Gholston (Special Effects) smiles and conjures another world entirely

The Piazza in Tricase, Italy. The gelato shops light up the night along with the screenings at the Salento FF. By day the square is empty with only a few stray dogs hunting for scraps through the vanished images and dramas of the night before.

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