film screening
Rite, Raid, Ride
directed by Oskar Pawełko & Weronika Wysocka, Poland 2024, 26'
- Rite, Raid, Ride is a film project by Weronika Wysocka and Oskar Pawełko, developed between 2021 and 2025.
- The project emerged as a response to experiences of isolation and overload, a need to rebuild community, and resistance against corrupt systems. The films follow a group of characters undergoing a ritual of transformation, presented through performative actions staged for the camera and cinematic narration. Anarchist, queer, and feminist values unfold through a surreal visual language that dismantles existing hierarchies and dominant structures.
- Each part of the series constructs a distinct narrative space filled with disruptions, glitches, discontinuities, and symbolic gestures. The characters function as hybrids of literary and cinematic references, operating beyond the logic of realist representation, suspended between different orders, balancing on the threshold of the real and the imagined. Rather than telling a linear story, the created world builds meaning through body, sound, and image.
- Weronika Wysocka is a visual artist, performer, and creator of experimental film forms. Her practice is deeply rooted in a process of self-reflective emancipation, which she consistently develops both in her artistic work and everyday life.
- Oskar Oksana Pawełko is a Berlin-based performer, writer, and visual artist working at the intersection of theatre, film, and visual and performative arts. In 2025, she received a danceWEB scholarship in Vienna. She is currently studying at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen.
- Authors: Oskar Pawełko, Weronika Wysocka
- Cast: Alicja Nauman, Andrzej Szpindler, Antek Wysocki, Delfina Tlałka, Katarzyna Szugajew, Łukaszka Staszkiewicz, Marek Elas, Mirosława Krymska, Olga Ostachowicz, Oskar Pawełko
- Cinematography: Jan Jurczak
- Music: Krzysztof Bagiński, Oskar Pawełko, Weronika Wysocka
- Producer: Malina Fiszer
- Chief Lighting Technician: Grzegorz Wełnicki
- Costumes: Planeta Kuz, Tomasz Umbras, Weronika Wood
- Make-up: Weronika Zielińska
- On-set Support: Tymon Nogalski
- Camera Assistant: Tomasz Grzymała
- Sound Recording: Zofia Mazurek
- Sound Mastering: Michał Ścibior, Piotr Radzio
- Trailer Music: Tomasz Duda
- The film was produced with the support of:
- Little Beast - Wynajem Sprzętu Filmowego
- LULU PRODUCTION SP. Z O.O.
- Muzeum Pomorza Środkowego w Słupsku
- Nowy Teatr
- Piramida Film
- Studio Flesz
- Stypendium Funduszu Popierania Twórczości ZAIKS-u.
- The Warsaw Towers
