Józef Robakowski Filmes

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...

A film sketch for a portrait of Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz by multimedia artist Jozef Robakowski.

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....

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

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

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'.

Rectangles pulsate to an electronic sound loop.

"...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...

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...

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

Short tribute to Valie Export.

A simple video performance mocking the so called "butchers of art", some Polish performers that used to devastate their bodies during the...

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

video, 5', 2004, collaboration with Wiesław Michalak

A short film by Józef Robakowski

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

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

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...