Joe Diebes

Never Can Say Goodbye

Scherzo is a music film that explores the limits of human virtuosity and the convergence of human and machine. Energetic textural and melodic fragments were recorded by cellist Rubin Kodheli, whose performance was filmed from ten different camera angles. The virtuoso’s desire to achieve machine-like speed and perfection is realized in both exhilarating and disturbing dimensions as his performance is fragmented and recombined into an impossibly extended musical climax.