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Patrick Bokanowski

Patrick Bokanowski

Director

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.

Born: June 23, 1943 (Age 81) in Algiers, Alger, France [now Algeria]

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Patrick Bokanowski  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
Movie
7.5
Actor2016
Movie
ActorSelf
Short Film
5.6
ActorThe Woman2002
Movie
7.5
DirectingDirector, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor, Screenplay2016
Movie
7
DirectingScreenplay, Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Production Design, Writer1982
Movie
7.4
DirectingScreenplay, Director, Writer1984
Movie
DirectingScreenplay, Director, Writer2003
Movie
DirectingDirector1968
Movie
DirectingDirector2024
Short Film
6.5
DirectingScreenplay, Director, Special Effects, Writer1994
Short Film
7.1
DirectingScreenplay, Director, Writer2008
Short Film
6.9
DirectingScreenplay, Director, Editor, Writer1974
Short Film
7.3
DirectingScreenplay, Director, Writer2018
Short Film
6.8
DirectingScreenplay, Director, Visual Effects, Writer1992
Short Film
7
DirectingScreenplay, Director, Editor, Writer1972
Short Film
6.7
DirectingScreenplay, Director, Writer1998
Short Film
6
DirectingScreenplay, Director, Writer2002
Short Film
DirectingScreenplay, Director, Producer, Writer2020
Short Film
5.6
DirectingScreenplay, Director, Writer2002
Short Film
6.9
DirectingScreenplay, Director, Writer, Cinematography2018
Short Film
DirectingScreenplay, Director, Editor, Writer, Special Effects Supervisor, Delegated Producer2021
Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
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