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...

ince the 1970s, Robakowski has been experimenting with the category of the author, transferring the authorship of his works onto the film camera. ...

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

A sort of mini-biography of Robakowski.

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...

"...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...

Rectangles pulsate to an electronic sound loop.

White circles appear and disappear on a black surface.

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

A fictional telephone conversation between the filmmaker and his mother on her birthday. A performative reflection on the relationship between public...

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'.

A classical organ composition by Johann Sebastian Bach “stretches” a red strip of film; An exploration of musical memory.

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'

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.

video, 5', 2004, collaboration with Wiesław Michalak

A short film by Józef Robakowski

Video performance

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...