Until real life doesn’t feel like a movie
This morning, I rode my bike to the cinema, once again. I already knew it was closed, I just wanted to hurt myself seeing it like this, alone and barred. To share some [...]
Spettacolo
Facing It
Shaun always feels separate and isolated from the confident, happy world around him. Whilst waiting for his parents in a busy pub, Shaun struggles valiantly to join in with [...]
The Joker
Published by DC Comics and first appeared in the debut issue of the comic book Batman in April 25, 1940, The Joker is a supervillain created by Bill Finger, Bob Kane, and [...]
The Joker won
“I’ve been a scoundrel in my life. I’ve been selfish. I’ve been cruel at times, hard to work with, and I’m grateful that so many of you in this [...]
No country for young men
The country lost another chance to keep quiet. Or perhaps to try to listen, to consider what their young inhabitants had to say. If, on the one hand, it seemed to [...]
Baby Baby
Many artists and authors have always been dedicating to the representation of childhood’s end, in a tender or dramatic way. Aggelos Papantoniou chose to do it, in his usual [...]
Mind the Gap
Margaret goes to the subway every day and sits on the platform, just to hear the announcement recorded by her husband, actor Oswald Laurence, in the 1970s. Oscar’s [...]
Fence
This is a very simple story, yet it reveals many complexities of our society, identifying them through characters’ way of communication, struggling to filter and convey [...]
Attraction
Urges in the undergrowth. Erupting fungal fantasies. Bursting botanicals… The dust and desires of a tiny alternative universe. Imagining the sensations of attraction [...]
Sumos
How does a landlocked country with a population of 3 million manage to maintain its identity against the hyper-nationalism of neighbours like Russia, China and Japan? This is [...]
