Roxman Gatt screened her performance piece ‘But Love left no Room for Hydration‘ @Kinemastik 16 Festival in Gozo & Malta.
I carried you with my horns
When escaping metador
Your hands holding
Onto me whilst
You rode me
We just kept driving
En route, escaping
Heartbreak and sad tunes
Between your thighs
So wet with sweat
Of fear of death
Against my neck
Mother was wailing
She was punished
For failing
We rode past her
Witnessing the disaster
Not once we asked her
Wether she is in
Need of plaster.
(poem by Roxman Gatt)
Roxman Gatt (1989 Mosta, Malta)
Lives and works in London
www.roxmangatt.com
New Maltese short films premiering during the third instalment of the 16th Kinemastik International Short Film Festival taking place in three partner cinemas around Malta and Gozo today and tomorrow.
These are Stephanie Sant’s film Perpetual Child, Samira Damato’s short Ħallini Ħanini and Liquid Dreams by Malta-based Columbian film-maker Andres Felipe Algeciras Marquez.
Other local film-makers competing this year are UK-based, Maltese artist Roxman Gatt with his experimental film But Love Left No Room for Hydration and Amy Azzopardi’s Room 23, which won the Most Creative and Original Concept award at the Malta Youth Film Festival 2020.
The programme, curated by Emma Mattei, consists of 16 short films in total, from 12 different countries, which will be shown at the Spazju Kreattiv Cinema in Valletta, Eden Cinemas in St Julian’s and Citadel Cinema in Victoria.