Józef Robakowski Movies

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. ...

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...

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

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

video, 5', 2004, collaboration with Wiesław Michalak

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'.

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

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...

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'

A short film by Józef Robakowski

The equation of organically generated soundtrack with the video image.

White circles appear and disappear on a black surface.

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.

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

Short tribute to Valie Export.

"...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...