Movies: Józef 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 and private spheres in which the maker turns his back to the camera, simultaneously shielding himsel...

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'....

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

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 nonsense is justified by the fact that this phenomenon took place in a state of war."...

In Impulsators, Robakowski rejects the narrative film form and the representational function in the spirit of his radical manifestations against the illusory character of traditional film in the 1970s, such as e.g. Test, Test II. Like Impulsators, th...

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

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'. // In I'm Going Robakowski attempted an iconoclastic representation of the human body. He initiated a situation in which the materiality of film engaged in a dialogue with the materiality of the human body. Ove...

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