Józef Robakowski Movies

Rectangles pulsate to an electronic sound loop.

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

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...

A sort of mini-biography of Robakowski.

The film is dedicated to the memory of American surrealist Paul Sharits. Sharits sent Robakowski a film score with a proposal to use it in a film...

The violent text resonates with the harsh energy of the music videos—for instance Powietrza (More Air), 1986, in which the band frantically...

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

Experimental short film by Józef Robakowski.

Robakowski directs the camera to zoom back and forth.

A film with Robakowski's characteristic single-shot structure, filmed from the perspective of a character who struggles to walk along a forest path,...

The camera records the trajectory and dynamics of Robakowski's movement: he walks, turns and spins with his head up in the woods.

Abstract, geometric forms, became the basis for the most outstanding works of the avant-garde sculptor Katarzyna Kobro. With her 'Spatial...

A film consisting of two shots recorded by a camera mounted on a lorry driving through Brooklyn, New York. At the beginning, in the foreground, we...

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

One of the three epitaphs that Robakowski created between 1966 and 1994, in an installation entitled Mr Deer (Self-Epitaph). The static shot from a...

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

Short tribute to Valie Export.

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

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

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