Untold Wajda: Blokowisko

Drawing its name from the Polish term for a housing estate, a word often used with a sense of bleakness, Blokowisko shows how a fleeting encounter can leave indelible traces, shaping both personal memory and collective experience.

The story begins in the grey pulse of the city: a formless society moving in unison, caught in the repetition of work, pressure and the quiet unrest beneath everyday life. Amid the monotony, a moment of connection breaks through. A man meets a woman, and for one day the world opens into colour, touch and possibility.

The next morning he cannot find his way back to her through the endless housing blocks of an unforgiving city. What remains is the silence of a connection lost and the weight of love that slipped away.

Created and directed by composer-performer Blanka Barbara Stahl, BAFTA Award-winning choreographer Anthony Matsena, and creative strategist Ignatius Sokal, Blokowisko unfolds as a shared human experience. It asks how intimacy shapes us, lingers within us and dissolves into the universal need to be found, remembered and to not vanish without trace.

By giving form to a story the Oscar‑winning director Wajda once imagined but never filmed, the work takes up the ideas that shaped his vision: the tension between individuals and the systems that contain them, the quiet poetry of ordinary lives and the fragile bonds strained by the vastness of urban scale.

Co-produced by Untold Productions and the Polish Cultural Institute in London.