Józef Robakowski Movies

The equation of organically generated soundtrack with the video image.

A swing imposes its rhythm, independent of the commentator; it forms the rhythmic score for the filmmaker's singing.

Robakowski directs the camera to zoom back and forth.

A sort of mini-biography of Robakowski.

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

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

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

Rectangles pulsate to an electronic sound loop.

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

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...

White circles appear and disappear on a black surface.

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

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

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

Experimental film by Józef Robakowski.

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...

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

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

A short film by Józef Robakowski