Movies: Józef Robakowski

  • 2005
    Trying to Describe Oneself

    Trying to Describe Oneself (2005)

    Trying to Describe Oneself

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    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 ...

    Trying to Describe Oneself
  • 2002
    My Roasted Chicken

    My Roasted Chicken (2002)

    My Roasted Chicken

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    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....

    My Roasted Chicken
  • 1999
    From My Window

    From My Window (1999)

    From My Window

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    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 My Window
  • 1972
    Dynamic Rectangle

    Dynamic Rectangle (1972)

    Dynamic Rectangle

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    Rectangles pulsate to an electronic sound loop....

    Dynamic Rectangle
  • 1982
    Brezhnev's Funeral

    Brezhnev's Funeral (1982)

    Brezhnev's Funeral

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

    Brezhnev's Funeral
  • 1994
    Acoustic Apple

    Acoustic Apple (1994)

    Acoustic Apple

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

    Acoustic Apple
  • 1985
    Cars, Cars!

    Cars, Cars! (1985)

    Cars, Cars!

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    Video performance...

    Cars, Cars!
  • 1970
    Horyzont

    Horyzont (1970)

    Horyzont

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    Horyzont
  • 1962
    6,000,000

    6,000,000 (1962)

    6,000,000

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    A short film by Józef Robakowski...

    6,000,000
  • 1970
    The Market

    The Market (1970)

    The Market

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

    The Market
  • 2006
    For Valie Export

    For Valie Export (2006)

    For Valie Export

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    Short tribute to Valie Export....

    For Valie Export
  • 1990
    My Videomasochisms II

    My Videomasochisms II (1990)

    My Videomasochisms II

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

    My Videomasochisms II
  • 1982
    About My Fingers

    About My Fingers (1982)

    About My Fingers

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

    About My Fingers
  • 1985
    Art is Power

    Art is Power (1985)

    Art is Power

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    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...

    Art is Power
  • 1994
    Passage of energy angles

    Passage of energy angles (1994)

    Passage of energy angles

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

    Passage of energy angles
  • 1981
    Witkacy

    Witkacy (1981)

    Witkacy

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    Witkacy
  • 1985
    La - Lu

    La - Lu (1985)

    La - Lu

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

    La - Lu
  • 1992
    Video Kisses

    Video Kisses (1992)

    Video Kisses

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    The equation of organically generated soundtrack with the video image....

    Video Kisses
  • 2004
    Conversation With My Mother

    Conversation With My Mother (2004)

    Conversation With My Mother

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    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...

    Conversation With My Mother
  • 2003
    The Energy Manifesto!

    The Energy Manifesto! (2003)

    The Energy Manifesto!

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    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!"...

    The Energy Manifesto!