شهداء i דיבוקים / DYBBUKS AND MARTYRS
2025, Film 4K, 5.1 surround sound, 9’31”

STUDIO Gallery, Warsaw

BASED ON
Performance conceived by Joanna Rajkowska,
Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman and Julie Weitz

DIRECTED BY
Joanna Rajkowska

DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Leszek Molski and Zuzanna Zachara-Hassairi

EDITOR
Kamila Gazda

NARRATOR
Joanna Rajkowska

MUSIC
Andrew Dixon

SOUND ENGINEER
Krzysztof Ridan

PA SYSTEM SUPPORT
Kacper Głódkowski

SOUND DESIGN AND MIX
Ucho Studio

DYBBUKS
Ewa Jasiewicz, Eliza Meller,
Alina Palichleb and Joanna Rajkowska

COSTUMES
Anna Bas

SHUHADA FIGURES
Andrew Dixon

MASKS
Joanna Rajkowska

COLOURIST
Magda Kulak

POEM “A SECOND TIME, A SECOND CHANCE”
BY YONA WALLACH IN TRANSLATION OF
Anna Piątek

TRANSLATION TO ENGLISH
Andrew Dixon, Joanna Rajkowska, Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman

PERFORMANCE AND DEMONSTRATION
ORGANIZED BY
Kacper Głódkowski, Ewa Jasiewicz, Alicja Kozakiewicz, Natalia Kwiatkowska,
Mil Licentia and Alina Palichleb

SPECIAL THANKS TO
Yanara Friedland, Andrew Dixon, Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman,
and Zuzanna Zachara-Hassairi for their help in shaping this film

Filmed in at Plac Wolnica in Kraków (Kazimierz), Poland

Joanna Rajkowska © 2025

شهداء i דיבוקים / DYBBUKS AND MARTYRS

דיבוקים i شهداء (Dybbukim i Shuhada – Dybbuks and Martyrs) was a performance  that encompassed two acts of genocide: the Holocaust and the genocide committed by Israel against the people of Gaza. It involved two entities: the dybbuk and the shahid. The title, written in three languages – Hebrew, Arabic and Polish – reflects the structure of the performance: דיבוקים i شهداء. The Polish word here is the conjunction ‘i’ (‘and’).
The film of the same title is an intimate insight into the working of the performance – the transformative power of embodiment and lament.

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