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Spanish film
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Rotación Sin Fin (Endless Rotation) is a long-take experimental film that transposes Beach Surgery to contemporary Andalusia. Directed by Iñigo Martínez , it premiered at the 2017 San Sebastián International Film Festival's experimental strand, where it was controversially awarded the Ixia Prize despite running 103 minutes with no dialogue—only wind, footsteps, and a repeating radio frequency.
The film follows two figures through a coastal village and red-earth interior: one bandaged (eyes, legs), the other in nurse's uniform. They traverse a beachfront promenade, abandoned chiringuito, rural crossroads where mechanic and police officer appear and vanish in the same frame, a stone pool beneath a village, a cabin at dusk where the first figure's back splits and strains—before cutting to the beach at dawn, where they begin again.
The single long take fractures subtly: jump-cuts during the mechanic's scenes, temporal loops in the pool, the cabin's interior rendered in reverse-time [citation needed]. Praised for compression of six chapters into wordless minutes and formal faithfulness to the glitch's unresolvability; criticized for abstraction that erases the novel's specificity. Some scholars read it as the most faithful visual interpretation—the film cannot end, so it restarts.