Laura Ferres’s debut feature, The Permanent Picture (Original name: La imatge permanent), constantly elides the viewer’s control. It keeps escaping a rigidly defined interpretive inclination, choosing to renew and reprise conventional narrative…

Laura Ferres’s debut feature, The Permanent Picture (Original name: La imatge permanent), constantly elides the viewer’s control. It keeps escaping a rigidly defined interpretive inclination, choosing to renew and reprise conventional narrative…
“It’s funny that Spain is the country where bullfighting is most popular. Do you know why Spain is in perennial clash? Because we don’t know whether we are a rational or an emotional country. The Nordic, countries for example are cerebral countries. Still, Arabs or Latinos have accepted their passionate side with no complex or guilt. They all know which side dominates. We Spaniards are in a balance hanging right in the middle.”