It was at the end of summer 1978, back in Vienna, when I first met Alfred Kaiser. Until then he had made three films and did finally agree to make a fourth one together with me. I had the idea that I would be on the move again with my poem scraps; in a last, deliberate affliction during a day by day journey through German-language cities. And I imagined, that the rolling camera could re-narrate the optical part of the scrap proceedings and that she would finally singe the scrap-stories out of my soul. November 8, 1978 we took a train together with 100.000 scraps and the film equipment and picked up Michael Schönemann at the Wuhrmühle. From there the three of us went on with the car to Munic, Augsburg, Stuttgart, Baden-Baden, Frankfurt, Kleve, Köln, Rotterdamm, Würzburg and back. Without any comprehensiveness for setting up the camera, looking for a place to stay, finding the way and without any preparations against the invasion of winter. (Christian Ide Hintze, 1979)