Hania Rani and Dobrawa Czocher have teamed up with filmmaker Mateusz Miszczyński to produce a new video for ‘Malasana’. Drawing on eastern melodies and tonalities, this dreamlike piece from their Deutsche Grammophon debut album Inner Symphonies now provides the soundtrack to Miszczyński’s meditation on the true story of a mother, Madina, and her children, Edilbek, Milana, Mariam, Islam and Jakub, forced to flee their native Chechnya.
“We’ve been friends and worked with Mateusz for years,” explain Hania and Dobrawa. “Like him, we feel the need to address topics that are important and personal to us. We wanted to tell this story through children’s eyes. The subject of the music video touches on war and migration problems, dressed here in metaphorical clothes with elements of magical realism, which in subtle but effective way distract us from literalism and take this family’s story beyond any specific political situation.”
Script and direction: Mateusz Miszczyński
