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...

"...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 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...

Rectangles pulsate to an electronic sound loop.

Video performance

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

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

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'

Short tribute to Valie Export.

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

A sort of mini-biography of Robakowski.

A short film by Józef Robakowski

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

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

Words and abstract shapes on a film strip, shot on video

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

The equation of organically generated soundtrack with the video image.

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...