Lumina amintirii explores evocations of memory in post-socialist Bucharest, twenty years after the fall of Romanian communism.
The film is shot in Cismigiu Gardens, one of the oldest public parks in Bucharest. This park is a central space attracting people from all walks of life, a place for social interaction and solitary reflection.
Interweaving voices that recollect the past with glimpses of present-day scenes from the park, the film constructs a montage of stillness and motion, images and voices, landscapes and people.

Alyssa Grossman is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in Heritage Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She has a PhD in Social Anthropology with Visual Media from the University of Manchester. Her film Lumina amintirii (2010) was part of her doctoral thesis on everyday sites and practices of remembrance work in post-socialist Bucharest, Romania. She also has an MA in Visual Anthropology from the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology (2005). Her previous film, Into the Field (2005), received awards at the Astra International Film Festival (2006), the Göttingen International Film Festival (2006), and the Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Video Festival (2006).