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Joanna Rajkowska, Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman

Night Herons

    Notes
    Directed by: Joanna Rajkowska. Written by: Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman, Joanna Rajkowska. Director of Photography: Leszek Molski. Edited by: Marcelina Górka. Voiceover: Matthew Daniel. Music by: Mutant Goat (Ola Kozioł, Andrew Dixon, Suavas Lewy). Sound design and mix: Franciszek Kozłowski. Marionettists: Andrew Dixon, Basia Ciacek, Joanna Rajkowska, Viktoriia Tofan. Marionettes created by: Joanna Rajkowska, Lili Bargłowska, Basia Ciacek, Andrew Dixon, Viktoriia Tofan. Animals created by: Viktoriia Tofan, Lili Bargłowska, Joanna Rajkowska. Sets: Andrew Dixon, Basia Ciacek, Viktoriia Tofan. Costumes: Wiesława Rozwonkowska, Konrad Pietruszyński. Props: Lili Bargłowska, Joanna Rajkowska, Konrad Pietruszyński, Rosa Dixon. Pottery: Danuta Jarecka. Colorist: Marcelina Górka. Visual effects by: Marcelina Górka. Marionette design consultant: Basia Poczwardowska. Production manager: Joanna Rajkowska. Production support: filmujemy.org. Publicity photography: Marek Szczepański. Executive producers: Agnieszka Sobocińska, PADO Studio Film – Dorota Przyłubska. Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ’20. Source texts: Magicians, Theologians, and Doctors: Studies in Folk Medicine and Folklore as Reflected in the Rabbinical Response by H. Jacob Zimmels (Goldston, 1952), The Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza translated by Edwin Curley (Princeton, 1994). Thanks to Theodore Block, Andrzej Rajkowski, Mariusz Widliński, Dori Midnight, Gunila Plank and her mother, Adrian Shirk, Katarzyna Górska, Andreas Staudinger, Uli Vonbank-Schedler, Arnold Rack, and Christian Berg for sharing knowledge, time and memory. Filmed in Nowogród.
    ORIGINAL TITLE
    Ślepowrony
    TRANSLATED TITLE
    Night Herons
    DATE CREATED
    2020–2021
    MEDIUM
    digital file; storage medium (external hard drive) in artist-designed packaging
    DIMENSIONS
    37'18"
    EDITION
    ed. 3/5 + 2 AP
    CATEGORY (FILM)
    artwork
    COLOR (FILM)
    color
    SOUND (FILM)
    sound
    ORIGINAL LANGUAGE (FILM)
    English
    OBJECT NUMBER
    MSN.K1.492/1
    ACQUISITION DATE
    24.09.2025
    CREDIT
    Collection of Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
    COPYRIGHT
    Copyright Joanna Rajkowska and Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman

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    Joanna Rajkowska, Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman
    Ślepowrony [Night Herons] film, marionettes, set design, and props for the film Ślepowrony [Night Herons]
    2020 (MSN.K1.492/2); 2020–2021 (MSN.K1.492/1)
    digital file (film); marionettes, set design, props
    dimensions variable

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    2002
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    Joanna Rajkowska, Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman
    Ślepowrony [Night Herons] film, marionettes, set design, and props for the film Ślepowrony [Night Herons]
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    digital file (film); marionettes, set design, props
    dimensions variable
    Joanna Rajkowska, Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman
    Marionettes, set design, and props for the film Ślepowrony [Night Herons]
    2020
    marionettes, set design, props
    dimensions variable
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