Movies: Józef Robakowski

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 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....

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...

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

Short tribute to Valie Export....

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

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...

In Impulsators, Robakowski rejects the narrative film form and the representational function in the spirit of his radical manifestations against the illusory character of traditional film in the 1970s, such as e.g. Test, Test II. Like Impulsators, th...

"...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 nonsense is justified by the fact that this phenomenon took place in a state of war."...

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

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

Video performance...

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...

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

Rectangles pulsate to an electronic sound loop....

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

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