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 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'

Rectangles pulsate to an electronic sound loop.

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

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...

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

"...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...

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

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

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

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

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

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'.

White circles appear and disappear on a black surface.

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