Józef Robakowski Movies

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...

Trying to describe oneself is a movie about representation. How it is possible, through film, to describe oneself and describe others. With the...

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...

Dancing with trees

Video performance

"...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...

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

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'

Rectangles pulsate to an electronic sound loop.

A sort of mini-biography of Robakowski.

The equation of organically generated soundtrack with the video image.

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.

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.

A short film by Józef Robakowski

In Impulsators, Robakowski rejects the narrative film form and the representational function in the spirit of his radical manifestations against the...