OPEN AIR KINO: Permanent Vacation (35mm, OmU)

In the organizer's words:

Director: Jim Jarmusch | USA 1980 | 75 min | 35mm | original version with German subtitles | with Chris Parker, Leila Gastil, John Lurie

While life pulsates in crowded and hectic Manhattan, New York's Lower East Side, just a few blocks away, is characterized by oppressive emptiness and silence. Permanent Vacation follows the life of protagonist Aloysious Parker, a young man without a home, education or job, over the course of two and a half days. He roams the streets restlessly, always a little ahead of whatever seems to be chasing him. Allie, who is 16 years old at the time, has already met and lived with a wide variety of people despite his young age. We become part of the stories of characters who, like him, fall outside of normative society. From the extremely lively New York post-punk scene at the end of the seventies, Jim Jarmusch traces the fleeting coming-of-age feeling of a young generation in his lyrical film debut - embodied by the equally sensitive and self-absorbed lead actor Chris Parker, who is in constant motion without direction. A somnambulistically staged film, suffused with quiet melancholy.
Film print from the collection of the Kino im Blauen Salon (HfG KA)

☞ Event starts at 20:00 with DJ, bar and much more.
☞ Preliminary program from 21:00.
☞ Film starts at 9:15 pm.

Meadow in front of the HfG, Platz der Menschenrechte

Click here for the screening:
https://kinoimblauensalon.de/de/events/permanent-vacation-2026-06-22

Price information:

Free admission | Donation requested