Patrick Bokanowski
Born
23 June 1943 (82)
Place of Birth
Algiers, Alger, France [now Algeria]
Also known as
Patorikku bokanofusukii, Pàtèlǐkè·bó kǎ nuò fū sī jī
Biography
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 a...
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.
Filmography (26)
Beyond
2024
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Réminiscence
2022
Hum Drum
2021
Une visite au musée
2021
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Vers Syracuse
2020
L'indomptable
2018
Soar
2018
Patrick Bokanowski : visite à l'atelier
2017
Patrick Bokanowski - Genesis of 'Un rêve solaire'
2017
A Solar Dream
2016
Un rêve
2014
Solar Beats
2008
Paroles d'artistes
2003
The Waking Dream
2003
Le Canard à l'orange
2002
Éclats d'Orphée
2002
Flammes
1998
By the Lake
1994
The Beach
1992
The Role of Chance
1984
The Angel
1982
A Creator of the Imaginary: Patrick Bokanowski - Short Film
1977
A Creator of the Imaginary: Patrick Bokanowski - Hieroglyphs
1975
Breakfast
1974
The Woman Who Powders Herself
1972
Little Rootie Tooti
1968
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