Hot Ticket : ÉDITIONS LUTANIE

Hot Ticket, 2' (1993)
written and directed by Zoë Lund

This film was shot on the occasion of the Rotterdam Film Festival in 1993. It was included in a feature film, Scenes From Rotterdam (1994), by Mijke De Jong.

Camera: Peter Mariouw Smit
Sound: Kees De Groot
Light: Wiro Felix
Editing and mixing: Menno Boerema
Executive producer: Rachel van Olm
Scenes From Rotterdam was produced by Nelleke Driessen, Bob Visser, Karin de Bok, Neon Film/Tv.

Hot Ticket was digitalized and restored in 2024 using the original 16 mm print. A project led by Stephanie LaCava and Manon Lutanie.

Archive of the source material: Eye Filmmuseum, The Netherlands.

Thanks to Robert Lund, Mijke De Jong, Rachèl Van Olm, Nicole Brenez, Leenke Ripmeester, Eye Filmmuseum, Antoine Thirion, Michelle Carey, Delphine Leoni, Camille Mortier, Cerise Fontaine, and Christina Demetriou.

Screenings (of the new restoration):
IFFR, Rotterdam, Jan. 30–Feb. 9, 2025 (European Premiere)
Now Instant x Mezzanine, Los Angeles, Nov. 25, 2024 (LA premiere)
Anthology Film Archives, New York, July 12–18, 2024 (World Premiere)

Press:
Screen Slate
Los Angeles Times
Mubi Notebook
Screen Slate

Read more about Hot Ticket.

Zoë Lund (née Tamerlis) was an American writer, screenwriter, director, actress, and model, born in New York City in 1962. From a young age, she was a talented musician, composer, and a bright student with an inclination toward political activism. She dropped out of school at the age of 16. She made her acting debut in Abel Ferrara’s cult Ms .45 (1981). From 1980 to 1985, she was the partner and collaborator of the filmmaker, critic, and activist Édouard de Laurot—best known for his film with Malcolm X, Black Liberation (1967). She appeared in several other feature films and television shows in the 1980s, including Larry Cohen’s Special Effects and Miami Vice. She married Robert Lund in 1986. Lund wrote and starred in Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant (1992), in which she addressed her addiction to heroin. Among her many film and television screenplays is the first draft of New Rose Hotel (1998). She wrote and directed the short film Hot Ticket (1993), in which her character’s last line says: “That which is not yet, but ought to be, is more real than that which merely is.” She died in Paris in 1999, at the age of 37, of heart failure due to cocaine use, leaving behind several unpublished novels, short stories, essays, and screenplays that remain unproduced.