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...

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

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

Video performance

Robakowski directs the camera to zoom back and forth.

Dancing with trees

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'

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

The equation of organically generated soundtrack with the video image.

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

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

Rectangles pulsate to an electronic sound loop.

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...

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

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...

A short film by Józef Robakowski

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