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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1970
    Horyzont

    Horyzont (1970)

    Horyzont

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    Horyzont
  • 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
  • 2006
    For Valie Export

    For Valie Export (2006)

    For Valie Export

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    Short tribute to Valie Export....

    For Valie Export
  • 1981
    Witkacy

    Witkacy (1981)

    Witkacy

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    Witkacy
  • 1970
    The Market

    The Market (1970)

    The Market

    01970HD

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

    The Market
  • 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
  • 1999
    Impulsators

    Impulsators (1999)

    Impulsators

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    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...

    Impulsators
  • 1982
    War State

    War State (1982)

    War State

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    "...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."...

    War State
  • 1985
    Nearer – Further

    Nearer – Further (1985)

    Nearer – Further

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

    Nearer – Further
  • 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
  • 1985
    Cars, Cars!

    Cars, Cars! (1985)

    Cars, Cars!

    01985HD

    Video performance...

    Cars, Cars!
  • 1993
    1, 2, 3, 4 (Light Cheeks)

    1, 2, 3, 4 (Light Cheeks) (1993)

    1, 2, 3, 4 (Light Cheeks)

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    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...

    1, 2, 3, 4 (Light Cheeks)
  • 1992
    Video Kisses

    Video Kisses (1992)

    Video Kisses

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

    Video Kisses
  • 1972
    Dynamic Rectangle

    Dynamic Rectangle (1972)

    Dynamic Rectangle

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    Rectangles pulsate to an electronic sound loop....

    Dynamic Rectangle
  • 1971
    Test I

    Test I (1971)

    Test I

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

    Test I
  • 1982
    About My Fingers

    About My Fingers (1982)

    About My Fingers

    01982HD

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

    About My Fingers