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....

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

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

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 ...

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...

Short tribute to Valie Export....

Dancing with trees...

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

From the heaps of rusted scrap metal, a metal, fully functional figure shapes up, trying to get out of there to reach the horizon. He is aiming high. Puppet animation directed by Jerzy Kotowski....

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

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...

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...

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

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...

The film is an experimental documentary form, made using the stop-motion method. It is a single shot in total plan, showing an aerial view of the Balucki Market in Lodz. The realization method involved recording two frames every five seconds without ...

A sort of mini-biography of Robakowski....

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

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

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 energy!"...