Movies: Józef Robakowski

Short tribute to Valie Export....

A short film by Józef Robakowski...

"...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."...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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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...