director / Krzysztof Skonieczny
producer / głębokiOFF 

The film piece “Tradaw” (2022), featuring Mirga-Tas and directed by Krzysztof Skonieczny, is a cinematic response to its predecessor piece “The (Gypsy) ROMANI Camp” (1955). The former is a propaganda piece of a Roma guitar player in search of an engagement gift for his fiancée and his experience wandering through Kraków, told by an unknown narrator, which perpetuates various stereotypes of Roma people and has its protagonist begin to embrace life in the city and conform to the social norms outside of the Roma lifestyle. Told in a combination of Polish and Romani languages, Mirga-Tas’s iteration takes a far different approach. In her version, she herself is both the narrator and protagonist, telling her own story and by extension, symbolically helps the guitar playing protagonist regain his voice. The film is carefully shot to include many parallel shots, depicting identical locations throughout the storyline, while also including some distinct differences such as showing Mirga-Tas not just in Kraków, but in her studio and hometown of Czarna Góry in the south of Poland. Shown side-by-side as projections, viewers encounter these films about halfway through the exhibition.