Images of 'Italian Popular Bench' have been realized in approximately 6 years, since autumn of 2000. They frame the same park bench in Finanze Square, in Rome. Since the beginning of the new millennium this bench has given rest and shelter to hundred of persons, becoming a witness of the passage and the meeting of people of all etnies.

“Do you maintain that the bourgeoisie is triumphing?.” “Yes, it is. And the neo-capitalist, consumer society is the true bourgeois revolution.” “I have banished the word ‘hope’ from my vocabulary; I continue to fight for concrete truths at each moment.”

“Fascism was just a bunch of criminals in power, but it managed to deeply transform Italy. Nowadays the opposite is true, and the power of today’s democratic regime is managing to achieve the acculturation and standardization that fascism was unable to complete. The power of the consumer society that destroys other particular realities and impoverishes the diversity of human beings.”

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A film director suddenly dies during the preparatory stages of a documentary titled “Prostor v tej galaksiji” (A Place in This Galaxy). The film should have closely explored the ever tangled relations of personal memory and images – photographs, filmed sequences – through a reflection on their alleged documentary objectivity, doubting the very character of the testimonies whereupon one bases the sharing of a plural, collective memory. A woman-friend of the deceased film director – she herself a documentarist – decides to finish the incomplete project, starting out from the materials found in the flat where he lived: a bunch of pages of a fragmentary, incomplete screen-play; a heap of untidy, hardly readable notes; filmed sequences and photographs emerging from wardrobes and drawers; just a few, already shot, inscrutable and apparently disconnected scenes; literary quotations; personal recollections; loose thoughts and queries striking one during the idle time of one's waits.

Essay-film experiments, a third dimension of Situationist texts. Ralph Rummey text illustrated with a sequence of 12 shots from the film "Spione" by Fritz Lang in 4 different variants.