Jozef Robakowski

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Józef Robakowski (born February 20, 1939 in Posen , Greater Poland Voivodeship ) is a Polish experimental filmmaker and photographer .

life and work

Warsztat Formy Filmowej / Workshop of the film form

Robakowski studied art history and museology at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and at the State University of Film, Television and Theater Łódź , where he later held a professorship. He lives and works in Łódź , was married to the actress Małgorzata Potocka and has a daughter.

In the 1960s Robakowski began as a photographer and filmmaker (35 mm and 16 mm format). From 1974 he used a video camera and thus belonged to the first generation of Polish video artists . One of his most famous films, From My Window , was made between 1978 and 2000.

During the experimental film festival in Knokke-Heist , Belgium , during the performance of Test I in 1971 , Robakowski used a mirror to direct the projector light directly onto the audience.

Robakowski did not use a film camera for the 1971 film Test II . Due to manual processing of the film strip, light was projected directly from the film projector onto the screen. Robakowski expanded the classic methods of film projection by providing the film with additional perforations so that the unfiltered projector light interfered with the presentation at irregular intervals, thus breaking through the comfort and darkness of the cinema.

“I am interested in 'pure screen'. My TEST - the film from 1971 - being the simplest emission of light upon a screen, reveals that power. In psychological terms, it works excellently. Actually, it works till it hurts, as cinema projection is about really strong beam of light, about an energetic force which computer screen doesn't have at all. Cinema is the power of light, the very magic of it. "

- Józef Robakowski

Light also played a decisive role in Works 1, 2, 3, 4 ... from 1992. Attention: Light! It was created in 2004 in collaboration with Wiesław Michalak and Paul Sharits . Accompanied by Frédéric Chopin 's Mazurka op. 68 no. 4 eight changing color spots pulsate in different light intensities to the piano music.

Robakowski was co-founder of the avant-garde artist groups Zero-61 , which existed from 1961 to 1969, Oko , Pętla and Krąg (1965 to 1967). He was involved in the organization of Warsztat Formy Filmowej / Werkstatt der Filmform (1970 to 1977) and Stacja Ł (1991–1992). He organizes exhibitions and surveys and has been running the Exchange Gallery in his apartment in Łódź since 1978 . Robakowski is a member of the Artists' International Association .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions (selection)

Awards (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Józef Robakowski , accessed on October 4, 2014 (English).
  2. ↑ In Person-Józef Robakowski , accessed on October 4, 2014 (English).
  3. ↑ Personal Cinema: Józef Robakowski's Cinematic Works , accessed on October 4, 2014 (English).
  4. ↑ Józef Robakowski Der Linie nach , accessed on October 4, 2014 (English).
  5. ↑ Józef Robakowski: Attention: Light !, Marcos Ortega ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on October 4, 2014 (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.robakowski.net
  6. ↑ Józef Robakowski , accessed on October 4, 2014 (English).
  7. ↑ Pointing to the Center ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 4, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.moe-kulturmanager.de
  8. ↑ Józef Robakowski , accessed on October 4, 2014 (English).
  9. ↑ artreviewː Józef Robakowski: My Own Cinema accessed on October 4, 2014 (English)
  10. ↑ Józef Robakowski Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on October 4, 2014 (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / galeria-arsenal.pl
  11. ↑ Jozef Robakowski - The skies of assumptive time - Photography of "nothing" accessed on October 4, 2014 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Robakowski, Józef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Robakowskiego, Wykład Józefa; Robakowskim, Józefem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish experimental filmmaker and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses