Created for Papaya Young Directors 2021, this experimental music video was inspired by the forgotten history of the Boyko people displaced during Operation Vistula.

Shot with a tiny crew across the Bieszczady mountains, the film blends surreal imagery, ghost-like figures and abandoned landscapes into a hypnotic meditation on memory, displacement and phantom pain.

Built around static compositions, analog textures and handcrafted visual effects, the project was awarded Best Cinematography at Papaya Young Directors 2021.

Dir/DOP: Michał Sierakowski
Producers: Michał Sierakowski, Michał Sadowski
Production manager: Michał Sadowski
1AD: Wojciech Skrzypczyński
Set design: Zuza Zajt & Kasia Balicka
Costume design: Monika Skomra
1AC: Jan Gierach
Camera equipment: The Out of Frame Rental
Offroad transpo: Wojtek Mizgała
Postproduction Studio: Xantus
Editor: Alan Zejer
Grading: Ewa Motylewska
Online: Michał Sierakowski, Krzysztof Sarnecki
Online supervisor: Jan Chmielewski
3D: Rafał Hajnc
VFX supervisor: Patryk Habryn
Post producer: Kasia Traczyk
Junior post producer: Zosia Komarow-Roman
Executive post producer: Magda Garska Pasztaleniec
Video making of: Dominika Jaruga
Photography: Dominika Jaruga
Transpo: Mirek Duda
Actors: Daria Polunina, Katarzyna Piotrowska, Martyna Bas, Zuzanna Zawała, Barbara Stanisz-Wójcik, Monika Jędruszewska-Wójcik, Małgorzata Markov, Ilia Markov, Mikołaj Markov, Michał Markov, Lucyna Grzech, Jan Grzech, Zuza Zaława, Jan Jurczak

Thanks: Piotr Karniewicz, Irena Kuleszo, Magda Jastrzębska, The Out of Frame Rental, Xantus, Colorofon, Heliograf, Yellowóz, Muzeum Kultury Duchowej i Materialnej Bojków w Myczkowie