Jim Jarmusch:
LOPUTON LOMA
(Permanent Vacation, Ranska, UK, Saksa, USA, Japani 1989)
75 min / 2055 m
-K3-

Kopiot: 35mm

“PERMANENT VACATION” is my first feature. It is a narrative which follows two and a halfn days in the life of Aloysious Parker, a young wanderer with no home, no school, and no job. He has lived in all kinds of situations and with many different people – almost all of them exiles from the daily, working world. Now, at the age of sixteen, Allie drifts into and out of strange encounters with other misfits; always moving, always keeping just ahead of whatever it is that seems to be chasing him.

The main character is partially based on the actor portraying him (Chris Parker), whose real life situation is very similar to that of Aloysious Parker – a name Chris chose for the part. Pieces of dialog came directly from the tapes that I made with Chris while writing the script, and almost all of the many backstreet locations in Manhattan were very familiar to him. The film attemps to merge re-created experiences with imagined ones, places the camera somewhere in the netherworld between documentary and theatrical (neorealism in color?).

The music for the film is treated Javanese gamelan, and in certain sequences is mixed with solo saxophone improvisations done for the film by Jonh Lurie. Its hypnotic effect is very important on regards to the tone and the themes of the film.

It is important to mention that Nicholas Ray died the day before our production began, and the film is unofficially dedicated to his memory. Before his death I had studied with Nick, and worked as his assistant. We had talked at length about acting, directing, my script his films and film in general. I was able to work on the crew of “LIGHTING OVER WATER”, Nick`s collaboration with Wim Wenders, which was a very inspiring and moving experience – it is a film about Nick`s death. I hope that Nick Ray`s influence is somewhere visible in “PERMANENT VACATION”.

-Jim Jarmusch-

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