Transient Witness

A naked musician in search of inspiration. A museum depot where paintings and sculptures lie hidden away from our gaze. An appealing tune rising from an old armonica… What at first seems an absurd and enigmatic performance little by little becomes a voyage into a troubling European mythology that has the shape of ancient landscapes and mystic figures. With subtle irony, Assaf Gruber invites us to question our perception of art and entertainment.

A companion film to Miraculous Accident, Forgotten Solidarities returns to Nadir, Edyta, and Jarek from another angle: in 2025, Nadir, a Moroccan former exchange student at Łódź Film School, comes back to Poland to make a film from a buried past shadowed by 1968, where cinema, evidence, and intimacy blur into power, manipulation, and accusation.

Moroccan student Nadir arrives at Łódź Film School in 1968, amidst Eastern anti-imperialist support. He meets Jewish teacher Edyta, who is forced to leave Poland after the Six-Day War. In 2024 he finds her letter, reviving memories of a fractured love.

Continuing his research into the European canon, its concepts, history and grey areas, (Daphne and Thomas, FID 2019), Assaf Gruber is our tour guide.