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  “LADIES & GENTLEMAN,
COMEWELL, SEARCHWELL, DREAMWELL!”
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WASTEPLANET2021/ DANCE FILM /8’

PRODUCED BY
COORPI
PERFORMED BY
Susanna della Sala
Marianne Magne
Babar Peerzeda
Melody Sample
Tao Ruspoli
Lily Johnson
Stefan Ashkenazy
MUSIC BY
Vittorio De Vecchi

CINEMATOGRAPHY BY
Tanmay Chowdhary

EDITED BY
Susanna della Sala 
Tanmay Chowdhary

WRITTEN, DIRECTED, CHOREOGRAPHED BY Susanna della Sala

ART INSTALLATIONS BYAngler Grove / Randy Polumbo
Atlantis Inn / Marco Walker & Tomek Sadurski
Lighthouse / Shigley
Waste sign / K.H.K & The Trash Pirates
Naked Revelations / Momo Museum Number Two / Moral Turgeman
Dream Demon / Melody Sample
Showtown / Stefan Ashkenazy
The Death Ship / Sean Guerrero
Swing / Ssippi and Damon James Duke

︎ SCREENER LINK UPON REQUEST ︎


A fairy-tale journey in the planet of waste produced by modernization, but also an allegory of a spiritual journey towards awareness and acceptance of the self. 

Screened at

CHOREOSCOPE, BARCELONA DANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2022
IPERCORPO 2021, ITALY
GLOCAL FILM FESTIVAL, TURIN, ITALY
︎ PRODUCED BY COORPI THANKS TO THE PRODUCTION PRIZE “LA DANZA IN 1 MINUTO” CONTEST



THE DIRECTOR’S THINKS..


The project was born from the very location in which it is set: Bombay Beach, south of the California desert. They call it wasteland, the land of waste. Here resides a community made up of people who, for the most diverse reasons, have found themselves having to live far from the traditional schemes of modern society.
In our age there's a system of powers and forces that end up producing a culture of waste; the victims of this culture are precisely the weakest and most fragile human beings, expelled from a gear that must be efficient at all costs. The production of human waste is an inevitable result of modernization, as is the progressive death of choral life and the loss of identity.
An age incapable of accepting the fantastic, the myth, the memory, the reflection on the metaphysical.
In an allegorical interpretation, where the actors are real inhabitants of the place, we come to see a deeper meaning, a symbolic journey towards the realization of one's own potential that involves a painful limit to overcome.
The physical movement understood as a defective constraint from which it seems impossible to free oneself, the harnessed, impeded and caged body finally surrenders and accepts its uniqueness.












WRITER & DIRECTOR 


I’m an Italian writer, director and artist. Starting out as a doodler in the marshlands of the Po Valley, I found in filmmaking my most sincere and highest vocation. I graduated in Interior Design at Politecnico di Milano and at the Italian national film school Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.

I gained experience working in the art department of several international film productions. I write, direct and sometimes perform in my films.
My path isn’t exactly traditional and linear. I have a strong predisposition for multidisciplinary and currently work as a director, writer, editor, set designer and illustrator. In the past I have worked as an interior designer, dancer and welder. Thanks to the work experience gained on film sets, I had the opportunity to discover directing which seemed to me to be the perfect synthesis between the roles of artist and technician, creator and professional. 

Most of my films start from doodles and sketches. I like to invent worlds and characters, trying to tell unconventional and extraordinary human stories. I have always been interested in the theme of outsiders,  marginalized individuals who, by choice or necessity, lead their lives far from a traditional society. My films The Fish Doctor, Wasteplanet, Last Stop before Chocolate Mountain and Wigs explore these themes.

In my creative process I tend to look for the magical and surreal element to underline the emotional and poetic aspect of the story and the character. I like to reinterpret the metaphorical element through a visual style often characterized by magical realism and fantastic elements.
Last Stop Before Chocolate Mountain is my latest project – a documentary born from personal life experience that both tells the story and captures the spirit of Bombay Beach, a once abandoned town in the harsh California desert, where art heals people in the most unexpected ways. The film was selected to premiere at the Locarno Film Festival in 2022, it won 3 prizes at the Italian festival dei Popoli in Florence and it was shortlisted for the Italian Academy award David di Donatello in the Best Documentary category.