Józef Robakowski Movies

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

A sort of mini-biography of Robakowski.

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

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

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'.

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

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

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

An experimental film by Józef Robakowski.

Short tribute to Valie Export.

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

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.

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

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

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...

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