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There was once a hotel in the mountains that was so popular with guests, the Manager decided to extend it. Yet still it remained full. The Manager continued to extend it, until eventually it became infinitely large. One day much to his surprise, no spare rooms could be found in his now infinite hotel. All the mathematical calculations, which he normally relied on to find the rooms, just wouldn't work...
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"This is my first short film. The idea came from a book called Images of Infinity which I found in the bookshop of the Science Museum and is based on a real mathematical paradox - how can a hotel with an infinite number of rooms become full... Obviously maths aside (I have had some stern comments from maths lovers who say I deviate from the numbers to make things work emotionally) what I loved about the tale is that you could interpret infinity in many ways: life, death, the whole shebang. It's in Mandarin because it's, arguably, the most spoken language in the world and, perhaps to my ear, even somewhat mysteriously timeless and I love the melody of its sound. I was terribly lucky with the cast, who were very patient with my stumbling first timerness and I was aided by an incredibly talented crew who never once said, "what on earth are you talking about". So if someone would ask me how they should shoot their first short I'd say pick something simple like infinity, persuade your crew to easy-jet out to Switzerland for a one day shoot, have a cast of hundreds and make sure to tell a story in a language you don't speak!"
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- director Amanda Boyle
- writer Amanda Boyle
- producer Adrian Sturges
- editor Marguerite Arnold
- director of photography Hubert Taczanowski
- sound Mark Holding
- music Christopher Benstead
production designer Jacqueline Abrahams
costume Sam Perry
casting Tamara Gillon & Tara Woodward
production manager Nina Sagemoen
Ist AD Mark Hedges
sound designer Nick Baldock
sound re-recording mixer Michael A. Carter
visual effects Ben Smith, Dave Birkhill, Satoko Iinuma & Stephen Venning
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- Boy Favian White
- Father/Manager Tom Yang
- Receptionist Rosie Marcel
- Narrator Haoyu Zhang
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© 2004 Amanda Boyle and Dazzle Short Film Label
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