"The first movement of the motionless" by Sebastiano d'Ayala Valva

Tuesday, February 21, 7:00 p.m.
Screening in French, Italian, German and English, with English subtitles
In the presence of the director
Running time: 1h20
Michel Piccoli cinema room, Villa Médicis

The screening will be preceded by a musical introduction by violist Francesca Verga, and followed by a discussion between the director and the audience in French, English and Italian.

The event is organized in partnership with theIstituto Svizzerothe Scelsi Foundation and the Bachelor Sound Arts at the Bern University of the Arts

Free event, advance booking required

Please consider cancelling your reservation if you no longer wish to take part, so that we can offer other people the chance to attend the event.

No recording or rebroadcast of this event is planned.

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Le premier mouvement de l’immobile (2018) is Sebastiano d’Ayala Valva’s first feature-length documentary. A childhood memory of terrifying music sets the filmmaker on a quest to find his mysterious forefather, avant-garde Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988). The film takes us on a sonic and musical journey in the footsteps of Scelsi, who never ceased to liberate the energy of sound, creating his pieces in a kind of intuitive improvisation.

Le premier mouvement de l’immobile was broadcast on ARTE and won several awards, including a special mention at the Turin Film Festival and the Best First Appearance Award at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam(IDFA).

Sebastiano d’Ayala Valva is an Anglo-Italian director born in London in 1978. He graduated from the Institut d’études politiques de Paris in 2003, and has made several documentaries, including Les Travestis pleurent aussi in 2005, La casa del padre in 2009 and Adieu au père in 2020.

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