Motel Stop charts out the architecture of Czechoslovakia in the second half of the twentieth century. It was established in reaction to the rapid erasure, done more or less with impunity, of historical memory, including the wiping away of the material remains of the architectural heritage. Though the key to our selection of specific buildings is their general architectural and artistic quality, it cannot be denied that part of the motivation to record these works is simply a fascination for the ability of a building (or what remains of it) to tell us something about the times in which it was made, and to compare and contrast it with what exists today. Original, carefully considered details meet with plasterboard, works of art encounter colourful coffee vending machines. The camera thus focuses not only on the elegant modernism of the 1960s but also on the optimistically rampant building of the 1990s.
The individual videos are presented as purely visual material with the sound later remixed by the video-makers. The chosen length of each contribution, about five minutes, is short enough to hold the viewer’s attention but long enough to show everything essential.