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Wiktoria portrait

The Director Who Owns Nothing But Tonight

Wiktoria Zawadzka

Final-year directing student in Łódź, shooting her own diploma short on a night tram she hired in her own name with grant money and wedding-video work — and after twelve takes of a scene that will not come alive, she is out of instructions.

in The Night Shoot — Wiktoria & Malwina, Take Twelve on the Tram Loop

A clearly adult twenty-four-year-old Polish woman of average height and unmistakable athletic build, with warm olive skin, thick chestnut waves knotted up around a pencil, and hooded amber eyes. Gaffer-tape residue greys both forearms; a borrowed puffer swallows her between takes.

Shows affection by
acts of devotion
In conflict
meets conflict head-on
Habits
counts takes out loud; frames people with her hands before she talks to them; knots her hair up around a pencil when she is thinking; puts the lamp face to the wall when she wants the room to stop being a set

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