Patrick Bokanowski

Biography

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 Ra…

Directed

1. The Angel (1982) — Director
2. The Woman Who Powders Herself (1972) — Director
3. The Beach (1992) — Director
4. Flammes (1998) — Director
5. Breakfast (1974) — Director
6. By the Lake (1994) — Director
7. Solar Beats (2008) — Director
8. A Solar Dream (2016) — Director
9. Le Canard à l'orange (2002) — Director
10. The Role of Chance (1984) — Director
11. Éclats d'Orphée (2002) — Director
12. Vers Syracuse (2020) — Director
13. Hum Drum (2021) — Director
14. Réminiscence (2022) — Director
15. Soar (2018) — Director
16. L'indomptable (2018) — Director
17. Un rêve (2014) — Director
18. The Waking Dream (2003) — Director
19. Beyond (2024) — Director
20. Little Rootie Tooti (1968) — Director
21. Une visite au musée (2021) — Director

Also appeared in

1. A Solar Dream (2016)
2. Le Canard à l'orange (2002) — The Woman
3. Patrick Bokanowski : visite à l'atelier (2017) — Himself
4. A Creator of the Imaginary: Patrick Bokanowski - Hieroglyphs (1975) — Patrick Bokanowski
5. A Creator of the Imaginary: Patrick Bokanowski - Short Film (1977) — Patrick Bokanowski
6. Patrick Bokanowski - Genesis of 'Un rêve solaire' (2017)
7. Paroles d'artistes (2003) — Self