Józef Robakowski Movies

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

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

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

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

A sort of mini-biography of Robakowski.

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

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....

White circles appear and disappear on a black surface.

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

A film with Robakowski's characteristic single-shot structure, filmed from the perspective of a character who struggles to walk along a forest path,...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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