Józef Robakowski: My Own Cinema; Art Is Energy

MSN Waraw invites you to a screening of films by Józef Robakowski and a meeting with the artist. The showing launches a series of regular screenings at KINOMUZEUM of films made by artists. The meeting will be led by Robert Jarosz. 

Józef Robakowski is one of the creators of Polish art and contemporary culture, the maker of iconic film, photography and video works, an art historian, teacher, collector and curator, theoretician and conceptual artist, all in one. He cofounded the Zero-61 group and the Film Form Workshop, among other efforts. He has launched major artistic events and happenings. In 1978, with Małgorzata Potocka, he founded the Exchange Gallery in Łódź, which was Poland’s longest-existing independent art gallery. In 2018 Robakowski donated the international Exchange Gallery Collection and its archive to MSN Warsaw.

We are showing the following films by Józef Robakowski:

Energetic Manifesto!, 2003, 2′
Market, 1970, 5′
Test I, 1971, 5′
22 x, 1971, 6′
Dynamic Rectangle, 1971, 3′
I’m Going…, 1973, 3′
Attention: LIGHT! (in conjunction with Wiesław Michalak), 2004, 5′
From My Window 1978–1999, 2000, 19′
On Fingers, 1982, 5′
Dance with Trees, 1985, 3′
Closer—Farther, 1985, 4′
Cars, Cars!, 1985, 2′
Art Is Power, 1985, 8’
My Videomasochisms, 1989, 4′
Videosongs, 1992, 4′
O! My Leg Hurts…, 1990, 3′
Slothful Line, 1992, 3′
1, 2, 3, 4…, 1993, 2′ 
Conversation with Mother, 2004, 7′ 
Living Gallery, 1974, 26′