Dancing on a Dry Salt Lake

Spiritual journeys, like dreams or creative endeavors—painting, writing, movie-making itself—are not easy to portray convincingly on the screen, because they are by nature interior experiences; yet in Dancing on a Dry Salt Lake Dominique de Fazio has done a remarkable job of bringing us inside the head, and heart, of Warner De Santis, a NASA cosmologist who after a car accident becomes "shipwrecked" in the Mojave Desert. This vast, apparently empty, and windswept place, which at first seems bleak and forbidding, slowly begins to reveal its rich complexity to De Santis and to the viewer. We are equally compelled by the the landscape itself, with its secret spirituality, captivating light, and haunting sky, as by the people who have landed in the hardscrabble town of Trona, California. Here De Santis falls into stories within stories as he finds himself drawn into staging musical in a threadbare roadside café with a handful of local people as actors. Alternately sad and comedic, logical and absurd, Dancing on a Dry Salt Lake features an array of supporting performances that are so natural that they stay with you long after the movie has ended. This is a movie for anyone who is a seeker, or who responds to gifted acting, or who can feel wonder at the mystery of human quest, and connection.

This film can be a spiritual journey for everyone that shows the simple beauty of nature and life and the ongoing searching that every human being has to go through.

There are no words that can describe this film. You Need to watch it for yourself.

It is a great piece of Art that I highly recommend.

A little bit of magic that can occur in our day to day lives if we let it happen.

Finding your own identity in todays world can be tough and sometimes everyone needs a little push to step forward.

This story, set in a dry and empty desert, offers to the audience a world that is full of wonder. The way in which the pictures and the music of this film are put together is marvelous. It is complex in it's simplicity and simple in it's complexity. Big questions are asked, meaningful questions. And yet everything is done with a very distinctive sense of humor. The mysterious mixes with the ordinary. And as much as this movie is out of the ordinary it relates to each and everyone of us, for it is about life, it's about where things come from and where they are going to, it's about the movement and the dance of life. ("Whoever doesn't dance does not know what's happening.")

The movie 'Dancing on a Dry Salt Lake' is a unique, extraordinary film, not comparing with other movies. Why?

1. The acting in the movie 'Dancing in a dry salt lake ' special of Sabrina Serri, Annelie Harryson and Dominique De Fazio makes me so happy in my body, to see their craft, worth to get any award.

2. The whole composition of the movie is wonderful clean, precise in editing, in harmony with the human nature. I can follow. I can breath, I felt NOT manipulated during seeing the movie. Also there is a director and editor who is thinking and aware about the steps in his work- a love to the detail what is very rare nowadays.

3. This movie gavel me hope and the understanding: I'm not wrong in my human body, everything has a reason. I wish: More movies of this kind needs to be done to make new sense to the movie art and industry.

This film has moved me very much. It is one of these rare movies that is not only for entertainment while watching it. No, it remained with me for many days. I cannot put into words what exactly touched me so much - but my heart and my soul were nourished by this film.

I laughed so much, but I also had tears in my eyes. I did not feel that I was watching a movie in many moments. It was more as if I was really there. And although it is Warner in the film who is on a spiritual journey, amazingly I was reminded of my own human soul.

The music by R. Carlos Nakai and the amazing pictures of the desert landscape complete this wonderful film.