Józef Robakowski Movies

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

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...

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

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

"...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...

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

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

Robakowski directs the camera to zoom back and forth.

Video performance

Dancing with trees

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'. // In I'm Going Robakowski attempted an iconoclastic representation of the human body. He initiated a...

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'

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

A short film by Józef Robakowski

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

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

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'.

White circles appear and disappear on a black surface.