Uaxuctum
Video capture
Director : Sebastiano d' Ayala Valva
Duration : 25 min
Year of production : 2017
Broadcaster : ARTE - France musique
Co-producer : Radio France
2019 • FIPADOC - International Documentary Film Festival • Biarritz (France) • Smart Selection
Uaxuctum is a prehistoric Mayan sacred place in modern-day Guatemala. The temple city was rediscovered in 1916, and it has appealed to the imagination ever since because the Mayans apparently destroyed it themselves for religious reasons. The Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi, whose work and life are also the subject of Giacinto Scelsi. The First Motion of the Immovable by the same director Sebastiano d’Ayala Valva, took the story as the inspiration for his orchestral work Uaxuctum (1966). The grand concert hall of Radio France dissolves and the temples of the ancient Mayan city appear—music and image converge.
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