Movies: Józef Robakowski

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 student making a documentary on her husband....

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

ince the 1970s, Robakowski has been experimenting with the category of the author, transferring the authorship of his works onto the film camera. Implementing the strategy of biological-mechanical records, Robakowski continues his experiments, carri...

Video performance...

Rectangles pulsate to an electronic sound loop....

Trying to describe oneself is a movie about representation. How it is possible, through film, to describe oneself and describe others. With the camera as mirror and third eye. At first, a collage-like combination of letter-writing, investigation and ...

Robakowski directs the camera to zoom back and forth....

The ritual transmission of a military parade from Moscow’s Red Square: On every anniversary of the October Revolution, this was loyally broadcast by all the television stations in the so-called people’s democracies. In Robakowski’s work, this materia...

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Short tribute to Valie Export....

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 and private spheres in which the maker turns his back to the camera, simultaneously shielding himsel...

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'. // In I'm Going Robakowski attempted an iconoclastic representation of the human body. He initiated a situation in which the materiality of film engaged in a dialogue with the materiality of the human body. Ove...

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 people and events he could see from his kitchen window. The film was made on the basis of a dozen or more hours of footage sh...

White circles appear and disappear on a black surface....

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

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Dancing with trees...

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'....

video, 5', 2004, collaboration with Wiesław Michalak...