Yo-yo-Ma: Inspired by Bach (the sound of the carceri)

Part two of a series of six films - conceived by cellist Yo-Yo Ma - that presents a multi-faceted celebration of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Suites for Unaccompanied Cello”. This episode explores the deep relationship between music and architecture through a high-tech “virtual confrontation” between the architecture of Giovanni Battista Piranesi and the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Using a striking and highly contrasted visual style, director François Girard places Yo-Yo Ma within a series of computer-generated, three-dimensional recreations of Piranesi's well-known prison etchings.