In 1932, Oskar Serti, the writer, experienced acute visual impairment, to the point that his perception of colours progressively diminished. After having consulted a number of specialists powerless to a man to thwart the irreversible character of the ills which had befallen him, he placed himself in the hands of the uncommon doctor alfred Wierzel, who suggested, not a cure, but the examination of an artificial solution which would allow Serti to experience ~new sensations of colour.
Based on the principle that sharp pain has this incredible ability to provoke flashes of different colours inside the body and on the particularly sensitive points on the soles of one's feet, Wierzel devised, for Serti, a pair of shoes cleverly fitted with hob-nailed soles turning inwards which, because of their incisive contact with the skin, and according to how the nails had been hammered in, could create a variety of pains capable of producing any colour whatsoever.
Oskar Serti, who agreed with no little enthusiasm to undergo the experience, produced, at this time, a series of very short films in relation with cherished haunts of his childhood.
Some young Hungarian researchers, having by some miracle or another, found these places in 1987, in an attempt to define theprecise nature of the different colours in which they were filmed, made an analysis of the astonishingly brusque movements which had tended to blur the shots taken by the writer. When, in 1990, they were able to pinpoint the corresponding colours, they decided to fix them on to strips of film in order to present them as Oskar Serti most proberbly lived them during the shooting.