Józef Robakowski Movies

A performance staged during the WRO 96 festival, entitled Monitor Polski. The artist presented a device in which his body was a conductor through...

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...

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'.

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

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

The equation of organically generated soundtrack with the video image.

This film belongs to a group of works that constitute manifestations of Robakowski’s engaged attitude towards social reality. Here, his...

Robakowski directs the camera to zoom back and forth.

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...

Experimental film by Józef Robakowski.

In the sensual erotic piece, Robakowski revisits three experiences of homosexuality he encountered as a child, a teenager, and an adult. In an...

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 short film by Józef Robakowski

Short tribute to Valie Export.

The camera records the trajectory and dynamics of Robakowski's movement: he walks along the white line painted on the football pitch.

A resulted from Robakowski's re-editing the video Łódź Kaliska (1986) which he had shot together with Witold Krymarys. It was...

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

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

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