All I wanted was to break your walls 

In “All I wanted was to break your walls” Rob Wasiewicz plays an ardent tour guide at a post-Soviet palace of culture. His deep connection to the building verges on obsession as he falls in love with its architectural grandeur. However, his world shatters when he learns that the palace faces imminent demolition, leaving him desperately trying to save it. Despite his efforts to organise meetings and debates, no one shows up to support his cause. In a last-ditch attempt, he decides to host one final tour, but only two last-minute participants join him. Together, they explore the palace’s hidden treasures, forging unexpected bonds.

Written and Directed by Karolina Pawelczyk & Jędrek Filuś

Cinematography: Magdalena Bojdo

Editing: Agnieszka Białek-Zaborowska

Costumes: Taso Jęchorek, Kuba Wydra

Music: Tymek Bryndal

Colourist: Rafał Kruszka

Graphic Design: Aleksandra Ołdak

Cast: Rob Wasiewicz, Magda Szpecht, Kuba Wydra

Karolina Pawelczyk is a visual artist. She creates multilayered, performative and narrative spatial installations using video, sculpture, sound and other media. Her works analyze the paradoxes of modernity and the tension between the need to find new forms of political and ethical action (that would be appropriate to a technologically mediated world) and the inertia of our established and algorithmized thought patterns.

She is a graduate of Photography at the University of Arts in Poznań and Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She is a member of the New Centre for Research and Practice and collaborates with the Office for Post-Artistic Services.

Her works have been shown at the Zachęta National Art Gallery in Warsaw, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the Arsenal Municipal Gallery in Poznań, the Short Waves Festival in Poznań, and as part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network in Amarante (Portugal), among others. She also participated in the ING Polish Art Foundation Mentoring Program (2021) and was a finalist of the 19th Hestia Artistic Journey.