Hotel Scheißdreck: Fireworks Resorts
Hotel Scheißdreck: Fireworks Resorts blends two incompatible genres: glossy travel marketing and state-issued instructional videos on surviving terrorist attacks in hotels. Tropical resorts. Flaming buffets. Emergency exits. Fireworks. Gunfire. The piece suggests a world where leisure and violence coexist with disturbing ease. The viewer is pulled between fantasies of luxury and the gruesome reality of people being murdered in hotels across the world. These are spaces built for relaxation and escape, yet increasingly serve as stages for chaos and fear. Through collision and montage, the video reveals the grotesque absurdity of our modern relationship to risk. We are invited to enjoy "Fireworks Resorts" — and also reminded that at any moment, the celebration might turn into catastrophe. The humor is dark. The terror is real. The piece becomes a warning disguised as a commercial, or perhaps a commercial disguised as a warning.