Patrick Bokanowski
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.
Le Canard à l'orange
(The Woman)
Paroles d'artistes
(Self)
Patrick Bokanowski : visite à l'atelier
(Himself)
A Creator of the Imaginary: Patrick Bokanowski - Short Film
(Patrick Bokanowski)
A Creator of the Imaginary: Patrick Bokanowski - Hieroglyphs
(Patrick Bokanowski)
A Solar Dream
Patrick Bokanowski - Genesis of 'Un rêve solaire'
Hum Drum
(Director)
The Woman Who Powders Herself
(Director)
The Angel
(Director)
Hum Drum
(Writer)
Hum Drum
(Screenplay)
Hum Drum
(Editor)
Hum Drum
(Special Effects Supervisor)
Hum Drum
(Delegated Producer)
The Beach
(Visual Effects)
Breakfast
(Editor)
Le Canard à l'orange
(Writer)
Le Canard à l'orange
(Director)
By the Lake
(Director)
Breakfast
(Director)
The Beach
(Director)
The Role of Chance
(Director)
Solar Beats
(Director)
Flammes
(Director)
Réminiscence
(Director)
The Angel
(Editor)
The Angel
(Director of Photography)
The Angel
(Production Design)
A Solar Dream
(Director)
Éclats d'Orphée
(Director)
Beyond
(Director)
By the Lake
(Special Effects)
Little Rootie Tooti
(Director)
Soar
(Director)
L'indomptable
(Director)
The Angel
(Writer)
Un rêve
(Director)
The Waking Dream
(Director)
A Solar Dream
(Writer)
A Solar Dream
(Editor)
A Solar Dream
(Director of Photography)
Soar
(Cinematography)
The Woman Who Powders Herself
(Editor)
Vers Syracuse
(Director)
Vers Syracuse
(Producer)
Breakfast
(Writer)
L'indomptable
(Screenplay)
L'indomptable
(Writer)
The Woman Who Powders Herself
(Writer)
Breakfast
(Screenplay)
The Angel
(Screenplay)
The Woman Who Powders Herself
(Screenplay)
The Role of Chance
(Writer)
The Beach
(Writer)
The Role of Chance
(Screenplay)
The Beach
(Screenplay)
By the Lake
(Writer)
By the Lake
(Screenplay)
Flammes
(Writer)
Flammes
(Screenplay)
Éclats d'Orphée
(Writer)
Le Canard à l'orange
(Screenplay)
The Waking Dream
(Screenplay)
The Waking Dream
(Writer)
Solar Beats
(Writer)
Un rêve
(Screenplay)
Un rêve
(Writer)
Solar Beats
(Screenplay)
A Solar Dream
(Screenplay)
Soar
(Writer)
Vers Syracuse
(Screenplay)
Soar
(Screenplay)
Vers Syracuse
(Writer)
Une visite au musée
(Writer)
Une visite au musée
(Director)
Une visite au musée
(Screenplay)
Éclats d'Orphée
(Screenplay)