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...

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...

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

Rectangles pulsate to an electronic sound loop.

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

A short film by Józef Robakowski

A sort of mini-biography of Robakowski.

White circles appear and disappear on a black surface.

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

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

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

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

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 dedicated to the memory of American surrealist Paul Sharits. Sharits sent Robakowski a film score with a proposal to use it in a film...

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'.

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

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...

This film belongs to a group of works that constitute manifestations of Robakowski’s engaged attitude towards social reality. Here, his...

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...