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 resulted from Robakowski's re-editing the video Łódź Kaliska (1986) which he had shot together with Witold Krymarys. It was...

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 performance staged during the WRO 96 festival, entitled Monitor Polski. The artist presented a device in which his body was a conductor through...

Here, the line serves the purpose of manifesting the artists marked pursuit in the 1970s to “brighten various structures of discipline”.

An autobiographical, auto-therapeutic take, laced with deadpan humor. Here we learn about another identity crisis as Robakowski speaks of his fear of...

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

An experimental film by Józef Robakowski.

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....

A film consisting of two shots recorded by a camera mounted on a lorry driving through Brooklyn, New York. At the beginning, in the foreground, we...

Experimental short film by Józef Robakowski.

In the sensual erotic piece, Robakowski revisits three experiences of homosexuality he encountered as a child, a teenager, and an adult. In an...

The violent text resonates with the harsh energy of the music videos—for instance Powietrza (More Air), 1986, in which the band frantically...

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

The protagonist climbs the steps of a tower, loudly counting each step. The end of his climb also marks the end of the film.

One of the three epitaphs that Robakowski created between 1966 and 1994, in an installation entitled Mr Deer (Self-Epitaph). The static shot from a...

Experimental film by Józef Robakowski.

The camera records the trajectory and dynamics of Robakowski's movement: he walks along the white line painted on the football pitch.

Experimental short film by Józef Robakowski & Ryszard Meissner.