Józef Robakowski Movies

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

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 young married couple and their everyday hardships. Unemployed Wojtek decides to sell grilled chicken from a street stall. His wife Agata is a film...

Rectangles pulsate to an electronic sound loop.

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.

Video performance

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

video, 5', 2004, collaboration with Wiesław Michalak

Short tribute to Valie Export.

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

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

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.

The equation of organically generated soundtrack with the video image.

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

"...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...