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Patrick Bokanowski

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.

Personal information

Birthday

1943-06-23

Birth Place

Algiers, Alger, France [now Algeria]

Movies and TV shows :

A Creator of the Imaginary: Patrick Bokanowski - Hieroglyphs

A Creator of the Imaginary: Patrick Bokanowski - Hieroglyphs

1975

7.0

Movie
A Creator of the Imaginary: Patrick Bokanowski - Short Film

A Creator of the Imaginary: Patrick Bokanowski - Short Film

1977

7.0

Movie
A Solar Dream

A Solar Dream

2016

6.1

Movie
Le Canard à l'orange

Le Canard à l'orange

2002

6.8

Movie
Paroles d'artistes

Paroles d'artistes

2003

0.0

Movie
Patrick Bokanowski - Genesis of 'Un rêve solaire'

Patrick Bokanowski - Genesis of 'Un rêve solaire'

2017

7.0

Movie
Patrick Bokanowski : visite à l'atelier

Patrick Bokanowski : visite à l'atelier

2017

7.0

Movie