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 film sketch for a portrait of Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz by multimedia artist Jozef Robakowski.

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

The film is an experimental documentary form, made using the stop-motion method. It is a single shot in total plan, showing an aerial view of the...

From the heaps of rusted scrap metal, a metal, fully functional figure shapes up, trying to get out of there to reach the horizon. He is aiming high....

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'. // In I'm Going Robakowski attempted an iconoclastic representation of the human body. He initiated a...

Rectangles pulsate to an electronic sound loop.

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

White circles appear and disappear on a black surface.

Abstract, geometric forms, became the basis for the most outstanding works of the avant-garde sculptor Katarzyna Kobro. With her 'Spatial...

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

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

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

The equation of organically generated soundtrack with the video image.

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

Short tribute to Valie Export.

Video performance

"...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...