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...

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'

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

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.

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...

Short tribute to Valie Export.

In Impulsators, Robakowski rejects the narrative film form and the representational function in the spirit of his radical manifestations against the...

Dancing with trees

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'.

The equation of organically generated soundtrack with the video image.

White circles appear and disappear on a black surface.

Robakowski directs the camera to zoom back and forth.

Video performance

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

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

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