Patrick Bokanowski

Known for DirectingBorn 1943-06-23 (age 82)Algiers, Alger, France [now Algeria]

Patrick Bokanowski is a French filmmalker who makes experimental and animated films. The film The Angel (1982) is his most prominent, fascinating, and obsessive work. It is accompanied by a soundtrack made by his wife, Michèle Bokanowski, and released during 2003 on a CD album by the label trAace under the title L'Ange. Bokanowski develops work between the traditional cinematographic genres: short film, experimental film, and animation. His manner of treating filmic material is his research at the frontier of optical and visual arts, always in an "in-between" to create. He calls into question the idea that cinema's essence should be to reproduce reality, that is, our habits of thinking and feeling. His films contradict the "objectivity" of photography that is solidly essential to most of the global film productions. Bokanowski's experiments, with the aim of opening cinema to other expressive possibilities – for example the "warping" of objective lenses (though he prefers the term "subjective") – testify to purely mental visions that ignore conventional representations, affecting reality, transforming, and giving the viewer of his films new perceptual adventures. According to Raphaël Bassan, in his article «L'Ange: Un météore dans le ciel de l'animation,» Patrick Bokanowski's work can be considered the beginnings of contemporary animation.Read more

Movies & web series

Solar Beats

Breakfast

Éclats d'Orphée

The Role of Chance

Hum Drum

Soar

L'indomptable

Patrick Bokanowski : visite à l'atelier

Patrick Bokanowski - Genesis of 'Un rêve solaire'

Un rêve

The Beach

The Waking Dream

Le Canard à l'orange

A Creator of the Imaginary: Patrick Bokanowski - Short Film

A Creator of the Imaginary: Patrick Bokanowski - Hieroglyphs

The Angel

Flammes

The Woman Who Powders Herself

A Solar Dream

Vers Syracuse

By the Lake

Réminiscence

Beyond

Une visite au musée

Paroles d'artistes

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