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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

"...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...

Dancing with trees

The ritual transmission of a military parade from Moscow’s Red Square: On every anniversary of the October Revolution, this was loyally...

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

White circles appear and disappear on a black surface.

A sort of mini-biography of Robakowski.

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...

video, 5', 2004, collaboration with Wiesław Michalak

A short film by Józef Robakowski

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

Robakowski directs the camera to zoom back and forth.

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'.