While Joker depicts the anti-capitalist rebellion as merely an aesthetic dead-end event, led by a madman on a killing spree, Parasite constructs a figure of the working class that does not attempt a rebellion when crushed by the system.
Bejn Gwarniċ u Ieħor fi Truf il-Essri
Fil-versi ta’ Grech Ganado, b’mod partikulari f’din il-ġabra, il-qarrejja impenjati faċilment jistgħu jilmħu l-ilħna mkissra ta’ kittieba bipolari bħal Sylvia Plath, Annie Sexton, Dorothy Parker u Virginia Woolf.
Il-Kuraġġ li Taqta’ Jiesek
F’din ir-reċensjoni jinterpreta dawn ir-rakkonti ta’ Mifsud bħala stqarrija xettika kontra kull slogan assolutist u—fuq kollox—bħala att qalbieni ta’ qtigħ il-jies.
Larinġa Mekkanika: A Play for Gen Z and Valletta 2019
Staged at the Valletta Campus Theatre, at a time when so much social and political turmoil was happening in Malta’s capital city, Larinġa Mekkanika found its hyperbolic tone caught up in an unholy juxtaposition of sorts, a feverish dream, something banal that felt deeply wrong.
Like a Grain of Sand: Exposing Disempowerment of Ordinary People
Written by Salvatore Arena and Massimo Barilla, “Like a grain of sand—Giuseppe Gulotta, story of an innocent” tells the story of Giuseppe attempting to give justice to a life nearly entirely taken away for dreadful reasons.
Heritage: Commodity, Public Good, or Commons? Radical insights from the 19th Century Heritage Movement
Behind preservation laws lies a broader cultural fact: the collective belief that some works of historical and artistic value are inalienable and that their true value is over and above any exchange value they may acquire on markets.
Malta’s National Anthem? It’s Noise.
“National Anthem”, a solo exhibition by Kevin Mallan is a verdict, a protest song and, in the artist’s own words, “an outcry for this island and what the order of the day has become to signify”.
