Patrick Bokanowski

Directing·Jun 23, 1943·Algiers, Alger, France [now Algeria]

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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.

Film	Credit
Beyond2024 · Director	Director
Réminiscence2022 · Director	Director
Hum Drum2021 · Director, Writer, Screenplay	Director, Writer, Screenplay
Une visite au musée2021 · Screenplay, Director, Writer	Screenplay, Director, Writer
Vers Syracuse2020 · Director, Producer, Screenplay, Writer	Director, Producer, Screenplay, Writer
L'indomptable2018 · Director, Screenplay, Writer	Director, Screenplay, Writer
Soar2018 · Director, Writer, Screenplay	Director, Writer, Screenplay
PPatrick Bokanowski : visite à l'atelier2017 · Himself	Himself
PPatrick Bokanowski - Genesis of 'Un rêve solaire'2017 · Actor	Actor
A Solar Dream2016 · Actor, Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Screenplay, Producer	Actor, Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Screenplay, Producer
Un rêve2014 · Director, Screenplay, Writer	Director, Screenplay, Writer
Solar Beats2008 · Director, Screenplay, Writer	Director, Screenplay, Writer
PParoles d'artistes2003 · Self	Self
The Waking Dream2003 · Director, Screenplay, Writer	Director, Screenplay, Writer
Le Canard à l'orange2002 · The Woman, Director, Writer, Screenplay	The Woman, Director, Writer, Screenplay
Éclats d'Orphée2002 · Director, Writer, Screenplay	Director, Writer, Screenplay
Flammes1998 · Director, Screenplay, Writer	Director, Screenplay, Writer
By the Lake1994 · Director, Writer, Screenplay	Director, Writer, Screenplay
The Beach1992 · Director, Screenplay, Writer	Director, Screenplay, Writer
The Role of Chance1984 · Director, Screenplay, Writer	Director, Screenplay, Writer
The Angel1982 · Director, Director of Photography, Writer, Screenplay	Director, Director of Photography, Writer, Screenplay
A Creator of the Imaginary: Patrick Bokanowski - Short Film1977 · Patrick Bokanowski	Patrick Bokanowski
A Creator of the Imaginary: Patrick Bokanowski - Hieroglyphs1975 · Patrick Bokanowski	Patrick Bokanowski
Breakfast1974 · Director, Writer, Screenplay	Director, Writer, Screenplay
The Woman Who Powders Herself1972 · Director, Writer, Screenplay	Director, Writer, Screenplay
Little Rootie Tooti1968 · Director	Director