FUQ GHOLJIET DINGLI
(ON DINGLI CLIFFS)
Fuq Gholjiet Dingli is a short film, winner of the Poetry on Film Festival call (2017), produced for the Mediterranean Literature Festival in Malta in collaboration with Inizjamed and Valletta2018, European Capital City of Culture.
The film is a visual translation of a political and environmentally loaded poem entitled Fuq Gholjiet Dingli by renowned Maltese poet Victor Fenech first published in 1970.
Fuq Gholjiet Dingli
Mitoloġiku l-ghabex fuq l-gholjiet Dingli.
Mifrud mit-thewdin u t-twerdin tas-Seklu
Ghoxrin, nisthajlu hrafa minn Elf Lejl u Wiehed:
il-qamar ximitarra bla maqbad,
kampnar imqareb jixxabbat fuq gholja,
qanpiena lubiena tinbex is-skiet …
Max-xefaq blati mithna wara mithna tar-rih,
’il boghod, f’moghdija sserrep bejn hitan tas-sejjieh,
ħmar, bidwi, karettun –
fdal ta’ Malta antika …
“The industrial deadlock continued today …”
Nitfi r-radju, kull ħoss jghib,
u ninża’ minn fuqi is-seklu tar-rghib.
Victor Fenech (1970)
