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...

"...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 young married couple and their everyday hardships. Unemployed Wojtek decides to sell grilled chicken from a street stall. His wife Agata is a film...

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....

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...

Rectangles pulsate to an electronic sound loop.

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 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...

Video performance

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

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

A short film by Józef Robakowski

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

Short tribute to Valie Export.

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.

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

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

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

A sort of mini-biography of Robakowski.