Movies: Józef Robakowski

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....

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 ...

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...

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

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From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'. // In I'm Going Robakowski attempted an iconoclastic representation of the human body. He initiated a situation in which the materiality of film engaged in a dialogue with the materiality of the human body. Ove...

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...

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...

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

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

"...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."...

The film is an experimental documentary form, made using the stop-motion method. It is a single shot in total plan, showing an aerial view of the Balucki Market in Lodz. The realization method involved recording two frames every five seconds without ...

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

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

Rectangles pulsate to an electronic sound loop....

Video performance...

Short tribute to Valie Export....

A short film by Józef Robakowski...

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