The First Motion of the Immovable (2018)

The First Motion of the Immovable plot

When Sebastiano d'Ayala Valva was ten years old, his father let him hear music from their cousin, composer Giacinto Scelsi. He found it terrifying. Now he tries to penetrate the world of this long unknown modern composer with unorthodox views on music and sound. Scelsi, who died in 1988, did not claim to be the creator of his work, but to get the music from the gods. He spent much of his life as a hermit and did not want to be photographed. Here he comes alive in the memories of singers and musicians, in powerful visual associations in which nature often plays a role, in the palm tree in which he is said to have been reincarnated and of course in his sometimes otherworldly sounding music. This organically constructed portrait shows a wide palette: from personal moments with d'Ayala Valva's old father to the abstract beauty of interference patterns generated by Scelsi's music.

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