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...

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

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...

Video performance

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

A highly expressive cry from the author of the manifesto, uttered while his head emerges from the water: "I should like to tell you all that art is...

Dancing with trees

"...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...

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

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...

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'.

The equation of organically generated soundtrack with the video image.

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'

A sort of mini-biography of Robakowski.

A fictional telephone conversation between the filmmaker and his mother on her birthday. A performative reflection on the relationship between public...

Video: Józef Robakowski, music: Laibach Werkstatt, production: Exchange Gallery.

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

A classical organ composition by Johann Sebastian Bach “stretches” a red strip of film; An exploration of musical memory.