Sci-Fi Short Film "The Recycling Man" | DUST | Online Premiere | Starring Benjamin Evan Ainsworth
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- A boy immobilized on a wheelchair spies other residents in the windows across the courtyard. He convinces himself of spotting an attempted assault on a little girl. Is he preventing a murder? Or is he just not capable of seeing the whole picture?
"The Recycling Man" by Carlo Ballauri
Starring Benjamin Evan Ainsworth (The Sandman, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Flora & Ulysses)
Subtitles available in English, Italian, and Spanish
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More About "The Recycling Man":
In a poor and overpopulated, yet lonely suburban neighborhood, Jacob, a boy immobilized in a wheelchair, fights boredom by spying on his neighbors across the courtyard, while his mother, Valery, aggressively tries to convince Maria, her pregnant best friend, to have an abortion. Sarah, a girl of Jacob's age, spots the spying boy out and says hello with a piece of paper. The new friendship is, however, suddenly interrupted when a menacing garbage man approaches Sarah and attacks her from behind with a screwdriver. Jacob, even though he is stuck in his chair, will try everything to alert his mother. Valery, through Jacob's binoculars, sees the garbage man killing the little girl, but she tells Jacob that nothing important is happening. It really seems as if Valery doesn't really care about it and she's far more interested in Maria, and her baby's fate. Why does she care so much about whether her friend will abort the pregnancy or not? And has Jacob really witnessed murder with his binoculars, or is he just incapable of seeing the whole picture?
"The Recycling Man" Credits:
A Cavalieri della Notte S.r.l. production
CAST
Virginia Newcomb as Valery (the mother),
Benjamin Ainsworth as Jacob (the boy),
Terence Anderson as Doyle (the recycling man),
Ines Milans as Maria (the pregnant friend)
Valentina Filippeschi as Sarah (the girl in the courtyard)
CREW
Directed by Carlo Ballauri
Written by Carlo Ballauri, Giovanni Gualdoni
Produced by Ilaria Caiazzo, Maria Costa
Director of Photography Alejandro Chavez
Music by College and Saverio Rapezzi
Editing by Diego Capitani
Sound Design by Alberto Parodi
Set Design by Marta Marrone
Costume Design by Renzo Iemmolo
Property Master Roberto Molinelli
Makeup by Elisabetta Paccapelo
Visual Effects by Hive Division
Practical Effects Art Direction by Leonardo Cruciano
Associate Producer Martina Cloro
Casting by Anna Pennella
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Hi everybody!! I'm the writer and the director of The Recycling Man. I really hope you'll enjoy the film! Feel free to ask me whatever you want. I may not have the answers, but together I'm sure we'll find more questions!!!
I don't have questions, just praise! Thank you for making this video! It really makes me think about what we will do when overpopulation and government power gets out of control 🤔🤔 thank you this is an awesome video 🙌
@@ssshhhjjj192 ❤️👍
What was the inspiration for the film? How did you come about with the storyline? Good film!
Is this a commercial for the WEF organization?
@@ssshhhjjj192 Thank you so much! We put our souls into making this video, so your praise really means a lot
just another one that should have gotten funding to be a feature film, truly amazing story
Thank you so much! This is actually a proof of concept to make a TV series. We really hope showing it here on Dust could help us make it happen! Fingers crossed...
could be made into a couple of seasons worth of episodes, something like the series "Sweet Tooth", except its an android boy, rather than a 'deer-boy' trying to find its 'mother'; all the while, evading decommissioning by the "Recyclers" who are hunting down the android children who have reached their recycling date.
@@DavidHalverson That’s very different from ours, but it could be a good spinoff!
The acting is amazing!
Nah. It ended well enough. Nothing more needs to be said. Don't expect a happy ending for humankind. We're too f'd up.
Disturbing, and thought provoking. Well done.
Thanks!
One can only hope that it's thought provoking, but I'm not so optimistic.
As dystopias go, this was pretty grim. But also realistic. A good little film! Thanks folks, well done!
Thank you for having watched it!
Have you ever seen Soylent Green ???
Only us bottom feeders will be affected by the law. Same as now
@@tibbydudeza
Excellent movie one of my favorite. Charlton Heston was the man. He had more gravitas and screen presence than anyone acting today.
@@kingpin76110 Yep not a fan of Westerns or those Biblical epics he starred but he killed it here.
Creepy. Disturbing. Hauntingly striking. And.. possible.
I felt shock and sorrow seeing Benjamin’s character struggling and calling out to who he see’s as his mother..
It really is like AI the movie.
Pretty brutal and realistic at the same time.
Also pretty nice to see fellow Italians doing some good stuff!
Grazie mille! Combattiamo! 💪
There have been some amazing Italian directors but unfortunately it looks like Hollywood took over.
How hard is it to break into this type of work for Hollywood, TV or a streaming service? Your work is better than 95% of what they do.
Thank you so much for your appreciation!! We are trying to break into Hollywood and make this into a TV series, but it is very hard...
@@CarloBallauri It seems very arbitrary who gets chosen as someone on the outside of the business. It's certainly not based on quality. Best of luck to you.
@@guacamole7493 I know!!!!🤣
@@CarloBallauri Go for open source platforms and make it webseries. Going for hollywood, streaming services like netflix or TV only corrupts the content and the creator. Also way too many hands there to steal their own share of the profits. Alternatively create your own platform for this type of content with out any censorship working both netflix and youtube replacement. If there is multitude of series or just movies it could well be worth the price.
What a fantastic story! It kept me engaged and intrigued right up until the very end. Brilliantly filmed and wonderful acting - more please!! 🤩
If you want more, like it and share it with your friends! And thank you so much for your kind comment! 🙏
There is nothing to improve upon here, other than feature length it. Watching it the second time gave me chills at all the clues right in front of us. Excellent.
My dear friend Wallace, I'm really honored you liked it! If you want to help a poor storyteller like myself🤣please share the link with the planet! At the end, it's really up to the audience if it still wants to watch stuff like this. Nowadays, you have to promote it yourself!!!
Exceptional, and heartbreaking. This world is ripe for a series exploring how we got this way, and the inner stories we deal with every day in this new age of population control.
Thank you! I know I'm trying everything to produce it! The series also deals a lot with how a new form of spirituality could arise in this world and how a millenarist religion could be very successful(and profitable) in a world where law52 is instated
Population control is mind control. That is the stuff of tyranny.
the "new age of population control" happened in the '70s and its been abandoned. Have you been living under a rock?
@@jv-lk7bc lol talking about the short, not real life u dingbat.
Oh my gosh, this was really amazing. It kept me guessing what was happening and the cinematography, music and performance from the characters were phenomenal. It was both dark and intriguing. Great job!
I see you're a cat lover!!! I love cats!!!!
@@CarloBallauri 😸😸😸
@@GDeNofa
Absolutely incredible! It's a very simple film, a very simple story, yet it really reaches deep down into your emotions. Virginia Newcomb really knocked it out of the park here. She made that character feel so real. And I cared so much for he in that short twelve minute span.
The only thing I don't quite understand though is why did the recycling man try to conceal his face from the police? Is he illegally scraping the machines or something? If that is the case, what did I miss that indicated that?
I loved how it was filmed and the music was great. Seems like this could have been the middle of a full length movie. Great job!
Thank you so much my friend! If you want please write us a positive review on IMdb
What is the name of the song that appears with gentleman with headphones?
@@user-rd8gw5ne8d its called "save the day" by college
@@user-rd8gw5ne8d Save the Day - song and lyrics by College, Nola Wren
Congrats to the director, love his vision! Keep up the good work!
Grazie mille Andrea!
I wonder how long it will be until she "recycles" her new child. Terrifying stuff here.
This was absolutely great! Everything about this got me so immersed even for a short film.
Thank you Ravle, you're warming my heart! Share it with your friends so more people will see it!
@@CarloBallauri Already did!
@@Ravle_ Thank you so much!!!
Brilliantly shot. Lighting, angles, framing. The feeling of dread that permeated each set. The use of music to confuse the emotion receptors of the mind. I sincerely hope you get a TV series green-light, or better yet, a studio backed film.
My dear friend Steve! I'm trying everything I could to make the series happen, but I need your help trying to "force" the most people you can to raise the number of visualizations!!
this is legit a future i see for us in the next 100 years
Not if we colonize mars and space. 💚
It s a gem. This movie is a real gem. Fantastic.
Thank you so much my friend! If you may, go on IMdb and write it there too(as a mini-review) You would make us a favor!
Well acted and very intriguing. The dystopian world was very well written directed and produced. Excellent video.
Thank you so much for your wonderful comment! It could really helps us in making it into a series if you share it with your friends. Let’s see what they think! And again thank you for having watched it!
Total masterpiece. It would be great to see new episodes set here.
This is a proof of concept for a TV series, so hopefully you'll see more episodes soon! Fingers crossed!!
@@CarloBallauri wow!!! But that's great news! I'll keep my fingers crossed then too!
A “The Stepford Children” remake?
@@jakeeasterwood3204 Not exactly...
Wow. This was great. I didn't know where it was going but I liked it . Very good dystopian film where we have the advanced technology which has failed to uplift the society in it . Poverty, pollution and apathy exist.
Check out few book of Stanislaw Lem, these kind of ideas he predicted decades ago... The Futurological Congress - great book
@@aleksionas Love him!!!!
I love it when a story surprises me. Exceptional. Definitely has that 'Wow, this could really happen' factor. I anticipate more of your work
DARK BUT REALISTIC...DESERVE AWARD FOR WRITING OF THIS MOVIE
These are better short sci-fi stories than Love, Death and Robots, and they are free
Thank you so much for you comment! It really helps us showing this to the world! Keep letting them know!
Nope..
"Like" isn't really a word I would choose to tell how I felt about this film. "Impressive" is more like it. Is Valery so twisted due to her circumstances, or is she just a natural sociopath? Your sets, especially the exteriors are wonderful. Good work!👏👏👏
Circumstances. A natural sociopath wouldn't have acted so emotional about it when nobody was looking.
Didn't see that one coming! Great SciFi! And there can be some social truth in it as well, as good fiction should have.
Man …. That was messed up … gave me chills 👍🏻
Wonderful, one of the best short films I had seen on DUST.
Please share it with your friends! It would really give us a huge help for realizing the whole series! The more people watch it, the more we can continue working! That’s how the world's going these days...!
More creative and better written than commercially done video. I want to see more.
Please, if you want to see more of it, help me, sharing it with your friends! The higher the visibility, the higher the chance they’ll let me do the series!
This was exceptionally done. Definitely deserves to be a series. Well done to all.
What the HELL?? Tear my heart out why dontcha! Actress really sold this haunting short.
I find these films to be far better than the 2 hour crap fests that Hollywood puts out. Excellent film. Scary future that is getting to be close to reality.
I'm a poor Italian director that would really really like to work in Hollywood and make a series out of this!!! Please help me share this with the world! And maybe one day if we stay together, we may resurrect Cinema!!!!!!
OMG!
This is really amazing good in all aspects of making such SF SHORT movie!
My compliments for the whole crew who maked this movie!
And also nice to see now an Italian movie!
Please make from this SHORT a whole long movie or a SF tv serie!
Thank you so much! We are trying very hard to turn this into a TV series. We actually hope that showing the short on Dust can help us gain visibility, so if you can, share it with friends!!
@@CarloBallauri: you welcome!
And okey, that's great!
I wish you and the whole crew a lot of succes and pleasure with making a whole SF tv serie!
And I hope I can see it than here on CZcams!
I have already seen this SF SHORT movie yesterday with my wife and her family, so I share it of course with my family and after that also my friends!
Grazie di cuore from Italy!
Excellent short film. Did extensive worldbuilding and told an effective story in 12 minutes.
Essentially the “The Recycling Man” is Blade Runner meets Hitchcock‘s mystery-thriller Rear Window. In Blade Runner, there’s bio-engineered ‘people’, that are synthetic humans known as replicants. It’s pretty much the same in the dystopian future here. Great film.
Now that was different. You have given me something to ponder on, thanks, would like to see more of your work. 😎
This is a proof of concept for a TV series, so, hopefully, you'll see more of this soon! Fingers crossed...
It certainly had a surprising turn in this short. A rare thing nowadays when something is unexpected.
scary social future tinged with the loss of humanity...great story, well told - technically and emotionaly
Thank you so much! Share it as much as you can, if you want to give us a chance to do the series!
I like how the cheery upbeat tune, and the people just going about their day in the city shows that this is normal day to day life. But just scratch the surface, and you see how miserable and ugly that day to day normal really is.
Thank you so much! The song if you want to know the author is Save the Day by College
Excellent work on this short film and a big THANK YOU … I really liked what you have produced and all I can say is I wish you a long and happy career
Thank you for watching and for your kind words!
Oh yeah I caught the calendar girl in the guys garbage truck. It was a picture of the woman when she was a pin up girl. Nice.
Very well done and thought provoking. Excellent work, thank you.
DUST,
Why did you not let us see the end credits? It's sad.
I agree, we put a lot of love into our end credits too...maybe you could bring it up with them? 😆
The song is perfect!!!
Amazing quality and brilliant story and complete in just 12 minutes or run time!
Thank you so much! Now, Let's hope I'll have a few hours to tell three seasons...
Excellent!!! I enjoyed this beginning to end. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Thank you so much! Thanks to your comments maybe we are going to turn this into a series! A mix between the Holy mountain by Jodorowsky and Escape from New York by Carpenter with a City of God by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lung type of Latin gritty setting!
@@CarloBallauri Awesome!! I'll be on the lookout for it! 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
it was really good ! keep up the wonderful work Carlo Ballauri.
Thank you so much Alice!!! If you may please share it with your friends!!!
This was amazing. Good story. Good set-up. Good set. Good acting. Just great.
Thank you so much for your comment! Please help us, sharing it with your friends!
This was just a masterpiece of film-making!
Grazie mille!!!!
that was worth a watch , had overtones of "Pop Squad" from the Neflix short film series Love death and robots :)
That was a good piece. Here, we are trying to build a believable hyper realistic setting for a whole series
Loved this one, best short I’ve seen for a while. Felt like a new take on dystopic future. Agree with the ones saying this could have been a feature movie.
Johan thank you so much for your comment!!!! Please if you want to help me turning this into a series, like it and share it with your friends and on your socials!!!!
Talk about a twist ! Also I need this song in my life even though it will prob always remind me of this twisted tale.
The song is "Save the Day" by College!
@@ilariacaiazzo4013 you are an amazing person ty I just thought you should know this kind yt commenter.
What a great twist. Love it. Very dystopian too.
Thank you very much, please share it with your friends, if you want to see the whole series!!!!!
The best part is that there are people and organizations *right now* trying to make this a reality.
Indeed. That's the point of dystopian visions, isn't it?
The more i think about it, the more it seems to me that Ableism is a particularly direct way to pervert and destroy human dignity. If we want to become really human, we need to love and respect those who are *not* perfect. (Besides, nobody is perfect, thinking so would be nothing but hubris.)
Wow!!! Brilliant. Totally believable.
I really hated that mother for giving up her 'son' for money and being tortured, then having her friend killed too. I hope humanity doesn't go down this slippery road in near future, so sad 😢
I'm waiting for that feel good sci-fi about the Future where everything is sunshine and roses. HA! I'm sure everything will be fine.
Believe it or not in the series taken from this, there's hope and a happy ending
@@CarloBallauri where is the series?
@@proloycodes I've three seasons ready!!! I'm just waiting for a greenlight...
Very profound and touching. Thanks.
This was very well done. Superb sci fi and deserves to be a full length feature film. Loved the acting, story and future LA backdrop. Tackles the issue of over population and what would happen to curb it. Very brutal and realistic. Thanks for sharing
Thank you for watching my friend! Isn’t it ironic that after having scouted every corner of L.A. I’ve found a more believable decayed version of the city in Rome?! Also because, nowadays, it is too expensive to shot in L.A.😅
This was a Brilliant tale, but that ending crushed me to tears.
Harsh but well done...👍🏼
Thank you so much if you liked it! Would you be so kind to share it?
@@CarloBallauri already have. 👍🏼👍🏼
Wow, Awesome. Congratulations 👍🇮🇹🇵🇭
Thank you so much! This is a proof of concept for a series! Watching it and commenting it, you’re really helping us to make it happen! Thank you thank you thank you! We put our blood and tears into it!
@@CarloBallauri you are talented, keep doing. Best wishes for the future.
@@wildwonderfulworldtvTThankx!!!! If you may please share the link with the world!!!!
😮Incrível! Isso deveria se tornara um longa-metragem, a produção é ótima. História bem construída, bons efeitos, boas interpretações... E conseguir essas reviravoltas num curto espaço de tempo mostra excelente roteiro e direção! Parabéns, espero que o projeto renda frutos.
Christ, the writer did rod sterling proud. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
He's my childhood hero!!! Please share the link with your friends!!!
Congratulations to the actors, a high level performance! Bravi!
Grazie mille!!!!!
One of the best Dust's I've seen in a long time. Very thought provoking. Thanks for making something unique.
Thank you so much! Let Dust know! Commenting it on their Facebook page! And like it and share it with the world, if you want to keep seeing stuff like this! There's no other way! You've been just enlisted as a Cinema warrior!
Bravo 🙌 your story is fantastic. The acting is good and a great dystopian setting. Loved the plot twist, well done.
I think the black dude works for Amazon. It's just like real life in 2030. All praise the WEF.
Excellent.
That was awesome! Great twist, and just sufficiently twisted!
Woah. Got here from Ilaria's site. Good film, thanks for the work. As scary as it gets.
When we reach this point why even bother with the human race anymore... I enjoyed it. Very well done. 🤘
Maybe there’s still a way to save humanity! Humanity ends when it stops reflecting on its future…
The human race, right like all races are (Negroid, Han, Aryan …) are never anything but social constructs. But that doesn’t mean you are not responsible for how they behave as long as you consent to participate in it or interact with it.
the main thing is the moral side ? we as indivigouls care about the moment.... and forgot all that there are samthing we col it ( athicels ) that's what humens need to consider in the first place they are more important for there cuminity as good adeis that give not just take this is big mistake in aur modern soseity the thoght of cunsouming rabidly and badly without thinking how this will afects as dominent reis in the first place ? .....
@@user-sp7hw7ge4f please learn spelling or people can't read your thoughts
The new kid would be better off living with the recycling man
That's exactly almost what happens in the series...
Among the best I've seen. Great stuff!
I'm so grateful of your comment! Please let Dust know what you think about it! Comment it on their Facebook page! Let everybody knows! And thank you so much! Grazie mille! Help us turning it into a series!
Very powerful . Almost like a glimpse into the future
the product of liberal values and letting the third world breed without restrictions while limiting the first world
Certified Gold !!!!!
Thank you so much!!!! Please, share it with your friends! Help us make the series happen!
Good Carlo, make more of these.
I’ll try, the more people are going to watch it, the higher the chance they’ll keep me working on new things… 🤣
Wow, very thought provoking. Another possible future. Very well done video, thank you. 😀
Thank you for having watched it! Please share it with your friends!!!!
This short film is what I need. Can't focus on 2 hour long movies.
Thank you so much my friend, if you want to see more of this, please share this link with everybody!!!!
Another Outer Limits vibes! Bravo ;)
Love Outer Limit and Twilight Zone! I’ll thank you in Italian since I’m from there and you said Bravo! MILLE GRAZIE AMICO MIO!
Very very well told. Wow 👌 👏
Thank you! please share it with your friends!
Great little flicik!! Heartwarming and heart-stopping at the same time. Can't wait to see more. Thanks...
Thank you so much! I'm the director if you want to help me making the Tv series one day, please help me spread it like a virus! Use your friends and your socials!!!!!
@@CarloBallauri will do
@@lesmith939 Grazie mille!
We can all see the world going that way
Coming sooner than you might think.
Incredible film! Very accurate representation of the modern woman's idea of motherhood as something for her own entertainment and nothing else.
FACTS.
Ok incel.
Wow, you really don't get it. This is about loneliness and desperation. The droid kids are a coping mechanism.
@@ZeroArmour It really depends on how you look at it. Your opinion of modern society is obviously from a different perspective. And notice that I got 12 likes on that comment, so others see the same thing.
Good film, but man oh man, it was so disturbing in several ways, one of which was basically:
Do Not Create Biological Children. Android Children are Better. Report Offenders and Earn Credit. IT'S THE LAW!
VERY well done. Great writing and plot line. Grim but enjoyable, great job.
Thank you so much! Please share it with your friends to let us keep doing stories like this!
Whoa, this is super cool. What an awesome concept!
Amazing good short film!!
Thank you!
@@CarloBallauri Grazie a te! dalla Spagna! My pleasure and my honor 🤗
@@sofazen Share it with you friends, por favor!! Now there subs in Spanish made by a proper Castillan!!!!
That was dope , I was transfixed, I had no idea where it was going , brilliant, peace ✌️
Thank you so much, if you may, share it with your friends! The more people see it, the higher the chance my producers will raise the budget for the series!!!!
I’m spreading the word my friend , I’ll do my best for you , thank you , peace ✌️
I always love these dystopian futures that man brings upon himself. And the people turning into police, ratting out their fellow man. We're almost there. Well done! 👍🏾
Thanks a lot! If you may please share this with everybody you know.
Brilliant short flick, well done, everyone involved!
Thank you so much! Please help us, sharing this with your friends!
Great portrayal of a dystopia but I don't believe people could ever become that shallow... er, what was the final score in that football game?
Let’s hope not… That piece was made by College, the same guy who did Nicholas Winding Refn’s Drive main theme
7-1 🤣
@@lorenzoballauri716 Sei un mito!!!
I mean, 21B is really just too many......
Wow! Heavy-duty stuff - great story, acting and atmospherics!
Top notch. Great acting all around. I was sucked in to the setting and state of mind of the characters on screen.
A clever twist would be all the recyclables give a surprise to the haves and have- nots alike. Waste of resources you know.. 🤖
So much to this one. On one hand building sympathy for AI and on the other for population control we are very close to achieving
AMAAAAAAZING
Dark but great, well done all involved 🙂
football game ends 7:1
What a fantastic user name! I’m envious!
@@CarloBallauri wow - thx
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