Movies: Józef Robakowski

ince the 1970s, Robakowski has been experimenting with the category of the author, transferring the authorship of his works onto the film camera. Implementing the strategy of biological-mechanical records, Robakowski continues his experiments, carri...

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...

White circles appear and disappear on a black surface....

video, 5', 2004, collaboration with Wiesław Michalak...

"...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."...

Dancing with trees...

Robakowski directs the camera to zoom back and forth....

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...

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....