Sunday 5 December 1971 is a day of rest. One stands in one's slippers leafing through a magazine. One reads 'relax' on a double page. To read the scanty notes of the author of these images, filmmaker Carlo Giampiccolo, it would be the scene of 'Romano escaping to the living room'. Romano is the young protagonist of a film project that Giampiccolo is making with Mauro Mingardi and of which only 'curious' fragments remain... In other reels, some of which are already in the Almanac, there is 'Romano in bed', 'Romano ironing', 'Romano talking', 'Romano eating junk food', 'Romano lying dead on the floor with posters', 'Romano arguing with priest'. Romano the more the merrier. They are all pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. It makes you want to edit all these sequences and close this film... on Romano and perhaps on much, much more, on the 1970s, on the Vietnam war, on consumerism, on the fascism that does not pass, on the massacres of democratic Italy. In truth there is little to be relaxed about, the painted owl in the next shot perhaps scrutinises us, then Giampiccolo takes a self-portrait in the mirror with his Single8 camera. Chaotic, fragmentary, we don't quite understand the picture, but beautiful images and that's enough for today.