The premise Mimmo Paladino wanted to make a film about his "alto giglio" (a 16-metre high wooden spire), the numbers 1, 2,3 forming a blue pyramid. He wanted a text. How could I, as a friend, as a mathematician and writer, director and the son of a famous director of art documentaries, say no? The request was for a text, a storyboard. Numbers and ideas. In the end, what are numbers, if not ideas, blue reaching towards the infinite? The idea To express visually, with words and images, the allure of the first three integers. With a little maths, history and imagination. An actor reads the words, while numbers and phrases appear on the screen. The numbers fly within the space - they create a space. The sounds of the numbers in various ancient languages. Numbers depicted. The reading, the images and the words are integrated into the cinematic "description" of the soaring blue pyramid. We associate music with each number, in accordance with the theory of Pythagoras.
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