Patrick Bokanowski
Directing
- Born
- June 23, 1943 (age 83) · 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.
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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.
Known for
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- 2024Beyond Director
- 2022Réminiscence Director
- 2021Hum Drum Director, Writer, Editor, Delegated Producer, Screenplay, Special Effects Supervisor
- 2021Une visite au musée Screenplay, Director, Writer
- 2020Vers Syracuse Director, Producer, Screenplay, Writer
- 2018L'indomptable Director, Screenplay, Writer
- 2018Soar Director, Cinematography, Writer, Screenplay
- 2016A Solar Dream Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography, Screenplay, Producer
- 2014Un rêve Director, Screenplay, Writer
