Józef Robakowski Movies

Trying to describe oneself is a movie about representation. How it is possible, through film, to describe oneself and describe others. With the...

A young married couple and their everyday hardships. Unemployed Wojtek decides to sell grilled chicken from a street stall. His wife Agata is a film...

A short showing Robakowski peeling and eating an apple, which itself produces the sound.

In 1978, Robakowski moved into a new flat in a newly-built high rise in the center of Łódź. That’s when he began filming the...

A swing imposes its rhythm, independent of the commentator; it forms the rhythmic score for the filmmaker's singing.

Short tribute to Valie Export.

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'

The ritual transmission of a military parade from Moscow’s Red Square: On every anniversary of the October Revolution, this was loyally...

In Impulsators, Robakowski rejects the narrative film form and the representational function in the spirit of his radical manifestations against the...

"...We came to the conclusion that the event recorded on the film does not have to be logically interpreted or named, because its meaning or even...

Robakowski directs the camera to zoom back and forth.

A simple video performance mocking the so called "butchers of art", some Polish performers that used to devastate their bodies during the...

Video performance

ince the 1970s, Robakowski has been experimenting with the category of the author, transferring the authorship of his works onto the film camera. ...

The equation of organically generated soundtrack with the video image.

Rectangles pulsate to an electronic sound loop.

White circles appear and disappear on a black surface.

A sort of mini-biography of Robakowski.