The First Motion of the Immovable

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2019 / 81min.

Rating6.3

Genres

Documentary

History

Music

Synopsis

It all begins with a childhood memory: that day when the father of the future filmmaker Sebastiano d'Ayala Valva forces him to listen to certain music that initially terrifies him; a distant echo from the past that leads him to follow the trail of his mysterious ancestor, the Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), who claimed that his music was directly inspired by the gods.

Directors

Actors

Franco d'Ayala Valva

Aldo Brizzi

Michiko Hirayama

Joëlle Léandre

Marianne Schroeder

Carol Robinson

Livia Mazzanti

Elena Schirru

Salvatore Pilosu

Alexander Lauterwasser

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