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Józef Robakowski’s cinematic oeuvre functions mainly as an experimental form of audiovisual art exhibited in gallery spaces. In his avant-garde activities, this intermedia artist, who originated from the Workshop of the Film Form, often reached for techniques characteristic of animated cinema, as evidenced by the author’s textual analysis of the films: Market (1970), Test 1 (1971), Attempt II (1971), Dynamic Rectangle (1971), 22x (1971), Impulsator (2000), Impulsator VI (2001), Attention light! (2004). The analysis focuses on the techniques used as well as potential or overt inspirations. Creating experimental animations, often in the spirit of ‘pure film’, the avant-gardist has been appropriated by other scientific disciplines such as art history or new media. The aim of this article is to include Józef Robakowski in the discourse of film studies, to demonstrate his stance as an animator over the course of his artistic output to date, but above all to embed the avant-gardist’s silhouette in the history of Polish animated cinema.