Wigs
An old wig with a broken heart falls madly in love with its new owner.
Directed by: Susanna della Sala
Produced by: Raffaella Pontarelli
Written by: Susanna della Sala ; Martina De Matteo
Country: Italy
Year: 2024
Type: Short
Length: 17′
Language: Italian
DOP: Andrea Josè Di Pasquale
Music: Paolo Casali
Editor: Susanna della Sala; Shervin Zinouzi
Iana is a 25-year-old girl from the East. She lost her hair as a child due to severe trauma and had to resort to a wig. Through the turbulent relationship between her and her new image, continually suspended between reality and fiction, Iana will take us into the dream world of her memories..
Director's biography
Susanna della Sala is a young Italian writer, director and artist. Starting out as a doodler in the marshlands of the Po Valley, she found in filmmaking her most sincere and highest vocation. She graduated in Interior Design and after gaining experience in experiential installations and video art, she specialized at the Italian national film school CSC.
She worked in several international productions like Wonder Woman (Warner Bros), Murder Mystery (Netflix), I Medici Masters of Florence (Netflix), Raffaello prince of arts (Sky HD) Overture of Something Never Ended for Gucci directed by Gus Van Sant. She wrote and directed the spot “BE” (finalist in the ARMANI lab contest 2018); the dramedy shortfilm “The Fish Doctor”; the dance film “Wasteplanet” (premiere Cinedans); the independent film “Neolovismo” together with Mike Bruce (premiere Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema di Pesaro; Best Film and Best Screenplay at Milan International Film Festival).
She’s now working on the feature documentary “Last Stop Before Chocolate Mountain” produced by DOCLAB. Susanna also works as an artist and had her first art show and installation at the Bombay Beach Biennale Art Festival, California in 2019.