The Chicago playwright and artist David Hauptschein creates the feature film Country of Hotels with a longtime collaborator. | JackHelbig
was a smash success.
Hauptschein continues the story: “Meeting Julio was a life-changing experience for both of us. We are so simpatico. It’s perhaps second only to my marriage, you know, in terms of importance in my life.” Martino did a small production ofin London—“a little off the beaten path, but still in a pub theater.” Hauptschein went to London to see the production. While there, Hauptschein told Martino, “I have a lot of other plays I’ve been writing.
“Dave and I decided we wanted to make a feature that we could take to festivals, we could showcase. Places where the work would live on after the initial work has been done.” “We filmed it in England entirely 100 percent on a constructed set,” Hauptschein tells me. “We were going to do it in the studio, but they pulled the rug out from under us at the last minute, saying it wasn’t going to be available. So at the last minute we found a warehouse [in Basildon] in Essex, which was like a 40-minute train trip outside of London. It was a warehouse where they were storing, like, Nike shoes. And the people who were running the warehouse were really cooperative.
The movie was shot on what Hauptschein calls a micro-budget, with a very tight shooting schedule. Minor problems can eat up lots of precious time. And sometimes crucial equipment is not available. Martino recalls a time when he discovered he only had the use of a zoom lens for the movie camera “from midday to 4 PM,” when it had to be taken back to the shop it was rented from.
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