Il primo moto dell’immobile for Triennale Teatro Milano
Tuesday, November 3rd, as part of the festival FOG Performing Arts Vol.2, Triennale Teatro is presenting Il primo moto dell’immobile, a documentary film directed by Sebastiano D’Ayala Valva on the visionary composer Giacinto Scelsi (1905–1988). Curated by Fantom, the online screening will be introduced at 8 pm with a conversation between the director and Fantom’s Massimo Torrigiani.
Based on Giacinto Scelsi’s memoir recorded on magnetic tapes, hidden for 15 years after his death, Il primo moto dell’immobile [The First Movement of the Immovable] is a deep immersion in the spiritual and musical journey of the artist and his ideas around sound waves. Defining himself as a medium, rather than a composer, Scelsi was convinced that his music was nothing but messages from a transcendent elsewhere, to be delivered to the world through an act of vital instinct. Il primo moto dell’immobile celebrates this movement, the ancestral fear, and desire, of the unknown.
Sebastiano d’Ayala Valva was born in London in 1978 from an Italian father and a British mother. He lives in Paris, where in 2003 he graduated in journalism from the Institut d’Études Politiques. Since 2005 he has been writing and directing documentary films for French television: Anche i travestiti piangono (trad. 2007), Angel (2009), Adapté(s) (2012), Performants Autrement (2016). His documentary film La Casa del Padre (2009) was presented at the Torino Film Festival. Il primo moto dell’immobile (2018) was purchased by ARTE and was broadcasted on La Lucarne, a channel for arthouse documentary films, after its presentation at the Torino Film Festival and IDFA – International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.
Il primo moto dell'immobile by Sebastiano D'Ayala Valva Curated by Fantom for Triennale Teatro/FOG Performing Arts Vol.2 November 3rd, 2020 at 8 pm Click here to register and enjoy the free online screening