Movies: Józef Robakowski

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

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....

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"...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."...

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

Video performance...

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

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

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

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 short film by Józef Robakowski...

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...

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

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...

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

Short tribute to Valie Export....

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

video, 5', 2004, collaboration with Wiesław Michalak...

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 energy!"...