Józef Robakowski Movies

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 Workshop of the Film Form'

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

Trying to describe oneself is a movie about representation. How it is possible, through film, to describe oneself and describe others. With 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...

Dancing with trees

Short tribute to Valie Export.

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

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

The ritual transmission of a military parade from Moscow’s Red Square: On every anniversary of the October Revolution, this was loyally...

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'.

Video performance

Robakowski directs the camera to zoom back and forth.

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

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...

"...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...

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