Józef Robakowski - The Energy Manifesto!

DVD Mailorder  |  PAL 4:3  |  Region: free  |  63 min.  |  2006  |  Original Version  |  FSK: ohne Altersbeschränkung  |  Label: ARGE INDEX

As the title has it, this disc is a manifesto. It gathers fifteen shorts from Jósef Robakowski, a key figure in the Polish avant-garde.

His artistic has encompassed performance art, photography, gallery installations and more traditional forms as well as filmmaking. Even this latter element is strikingly diverse: from the disc alone, which takes in works dating from 1970 to 2006, we find animation, documentary, structuralism, actionism, wit, humour, audio-visual interplays, happy accidents, strict formalism, an emotional register and an ironic distance. Indeed, Robakowski, it seems, could be viewed as the face of the avant-garde, an all-embracing, all-encompassing love of the experimental whether it be on video, film or digital format.

A Bilingual (German/English) Brochure is enclosed.

01 "THE ENERGY MANIFESTO!" | PL | 2003 | 2 min
02 "TEST!" | PL | 1971 | 2 min
03 "AN ATTEMPT (TEST II)" | A | 1971 | 2 min
04 "VIDEO KISSES" | PL | 1992 | 3 min
05 "IMPULSATOR" | PL | 1998 | 3 min
06 "ATTENTION LIGHT!" | PL | 2004 | 5 min
07 "I AM GOING..." | PL | 1993 | 3 min
08 "NEARER FURTHER" | PL | 1985 | 4 min
09 "LA LU" | PL | 1985 | 2 min
10 "ABOUT MY FINGERS" | PL | 1982 | 4 min
11 "ACOUSTIC APPLE"  | PL | 1994 | 4 min
12 "MY VIDEOMASOCHISMS II" | PL | 1990 | 4 min
13 "THE MARKET" | PL | 1970 | 5 min
14 "FROM MY WINDOW" | PL | 1978 - 2000 | 19 min
BONUSTRACK: "FOR VALIE EXPORT" | PL | 2006 | 1 min

Press Ratings

»Józef Robakowski is one of the most famous Polish artists and filmmakers associated with the neo-avant-garde movement of the 1960s and 1970s. His works are characterized by a marked tendency to transgress various genres and media.«
(Patricia Grzonka)

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Józef Robakowski - The Energy Manifesto! was added to our catalog on Monday 18 June, 2007.