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.
Known for
DirectingBirthday
June 23, 1943Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
27Place of birth
Algiers, Alger, France [now Algeria]Also known as
パトリック・ボカノフスキー, Patorikku bokanofusukii, 帕特里克·博卡诺夫斯基, Pàtèlǐkè·bó kǎ nuò fū sī jī, Патрик бокановски, Patrik bokanovskiCast credits
Crew credits
The Woman Who Powders Herself
Director, Editor, Screenplay, WriterThe Angel
Director, Writer, Screenplay, Editor, Director of Photography, Production DesignLe Canard à l'orange
Writer, Director, ScreenplayBy the Lake
Director, Special Effects, Writer, ScreenplayThe Beach
Director, Screenplay, Writer, Visual EffectsBreakfast
Director, Writer, Screenplay, EditorThe Role of Chance
Director, Screenplay, WriterFlammes
Director, Writer, ScreenplaySolar Beats
Director, Writer, ScreenplayA Solar Dream
Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography, ScreenplayÉclats d'Orphée
Director, Writer, ScreenplaySoar
Director, Cinematography, Screenplay, WriterL'indomptable
Director, Screenplay, WriterUn rêve
Director, Screenplay, WriterThe Waking Dream
Director, Screenplay, WriterVers Syracuse
Director, Producer, Screenplay, WriterUne visite au musée
Writer, Screenplay, DirectorHum Drum
Director, Writer, Screenplay, Delegated Producer, Editor, Special Effects SupervisorRéminiscence
DirectorLittle Rootie Tooti
Director