Movies: Józef Robakowski
- 2005
Trying to Describe Oneself (2005)
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Trying to describe oneself is a movie about representation. How it is possible, through film, to describe oneself and describe others. With the camera as mirror and third eye. At first, a collage-like combination of letter-writing, investigation and ...
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- 1994
Acoustic Apple (1994)
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A short showing Robakowski peeling and eating an apple, which itself produces the sound....
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- 1971
An Attempt (Test II) (1971)
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A classical organ composition by Johann Sebastian Bach “stretches” a red strip of film; An exploration of musical memory....
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- 1970
The Market (1970)
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From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'...
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- 2002
My Roasted Chicken (2002)
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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 student making a documentary on her husband....
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- 1999
From My Window (1999)
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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 people and events he could see from his kitchen window. The film was made on the basis of a dozen or more hours of footage sh...
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- 1982
War State (1982)
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"...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."...
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- 1970
Horyzont (1970)
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- 1972
Dynamic Rectangle (1972)
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Rectangles pulsate to an electronic sound loop....
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- 2003
The Energy Manifesto! (2003)
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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 energy!"...
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- 1981
Witkacy (1981)
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- 1985
La - Lu (1985)
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A swing imposes its rhythm, independent of the commentator; it forms the rhythmic score for the filmmaker's singing....
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- 1985
Nearer – Further (1985)
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Robakowski directs the camera to zoom back and forth....
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- 1985
Art is Power (1985)
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The ritual transmission of a military parade from Moscow’s Red Square: On every anniversary of the October Revolution, this was loyally broadcast by all the television stations in the so-called people’s democracies. In Robakowski’s work, this materia...
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- 1971
Test I (1971)
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White circles appear and disappear on a black surface....
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- 2006
For Valie Export (2006)
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Short tribute to Valie Export....
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- 1982
About My Fingers (1982)
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A sort of mini-biography of Robakowski....
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- 1985
Dancing with trees (1985)
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Dancing with trees...
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- 1990
My Videomasochisms II (1990)
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A simple video performance mocking the so called "butchers of art", some Polish performers that used to devastate their bodies during the performances....
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- 1962
6,000,000 (1962)
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A short film by Józef Robakowski...
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