Adolpho Arrieta
Vacanza Permanente

"I started filming myself. A hand, a foot, whatever was closest at that moment. Then I started filming others and the character of the hands and feet transformed into another character whose full figure is never seen for reasons I cannot explain. I made no effort in any direction in this film. Places appeared, actors appeared, music appeared. Nothing was planned, everything appeared, like in a dream. A dream that soon turned into a nightmare because I couldn't extract the film from the computer program to make a transportable copy. There are some dialogues, very few, cut phrases, distant voices, dialogues in Spanish, French, English, Italian. dialogues never written but only suggested, or even spontaneous". (A. Arrieta)

"Permanent Vacation": or when cinema becomes a sort of parenthesis between realism and avant-garde. This small film aired on late night, Rai 3, Friday, October 24, 2008, is one of the most dreamlike and disorienting you could ever watch.
The absence of a specific plot further enhances its dreamlike essence, with its intercession of distant and incomprehensible voices, shots of feet and hands bordering on fetishism, and real folkloric sequences or old black and white films.

Everything, in its entirety, seems to make no sense, almost appearing like a patchwork fallen from the sky, but the more you watch it, the more intoxicated you become with those images so criticized for their hermeticism.

The music, the shots, the actors appear, disappear, reappear, without a reason, without notice, without a purpose. They don't introduce themselves: they speak, in different languages, of their personal matters (a French man talks about his mother), but the purpose of the characters in this film is not to appear, and therefore to be watched. Like in a dream, the actors’ purpose is to be specters, without an end, wandering in the mind of the dreamer at any nighttime moment.

"Permanent Vacation" is a disorienting film, with its relentless phone ringing, the grotesque million with silver eyes, ashtrays, mirrors, and more.

Forty minutes of cinematic apnea, whose sole purpose is to have its own artistic dignity.

The film, therefore, is a dream: whether it is a beautiful dream or a nightmare is for you to decide.