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.

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

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.

Dancing with trees

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.

Robakowski directs the camera to zoom back and forth.

The equation of organically generated soundtrack with the video image.

Video performance

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

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'.

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

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...

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