Angles facing upwards, towards the sky, forms in tension, in imbalance – “Last and First Men”, directed and music by Jóhann Jóhannsson, is a visual and sound experience. We are placed before architectural memorials – sometimes from points of view without references – immersed in slow and somber music. Jóhannsson appropriates a collection of places and forms that refer to collective memory and reinterprets them through a voice that speaks about a fiction – cosmic spaces, interplanetary civilizations, millions of years in the future, of which we have as traces their abandoned places: astronomical observatories, launch platforms, spaceships, with tones, textures and frames that are reflected in the sound environment.

It is also Jóhannsson's music that welcomes the aliens filmed by Denis Villeneuve in “The First Encounter” (Arrival), extraterrestrials arriving in a monolithic vertical ship – in contrast to the horizontality that science fiction has accustomed us to.

Adaptation of the novel Story of your Life, by Ted Chiang, Villeneuve and Jóhannsson interpret with images and sounds the contact of a linguist with extraterrestrial writing. A circular writing that gives the person who writes it the ability to think in any direction of time – and realize that causes and consequences can be interchangeable.