Patrick Bokanowski

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1943-06-23 (81 years old)

Place 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 bokanovski

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 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

Director

2024
Beyond

as Director

2022
Réminiscence

as Director

2021
Hum Drum

as Director

2021
2020
Vers Syracuse

as Director

2018
Soar

as Director

2018
L'indomptable

as Director

2016
A Solar Dream

as Director

2014
Un rêve

as Director

2008
Solar Beats

as Director

2003
The Waking Dream

as Director

2002
2002
Éclats d'Orphée

as Director

1998
Flammes

as Director

1994
By the Lake

as Director

1992
The Beach

as Director

1984
The Role of Chance

as Director

1982
The Angel

as Director

1974
Breakfast

as Director

1968

Writer

2021
Hum Drum

as Writer

2021
Hum Drum

as Screenplay

2021
2021
Une visite au musée

as Screenplay

2020
Vers Syracuse

as Screenplay

2020
Vers Syracuse

as Writer

2018
L'indomptable

as Screenplay

2018
L'indomptable

as Writer

2018
Soar

as Writer

2018
Soar

as Screenplay

2016
A Solar Dream

as Writer

2016
A Solar Dream

as Screenplay

2014
Un rêve

as Screenplay

2014
Un rêve

as Writer

2008
Solar Beats

as Writer

2008
Solar Beats

as Screenplay

2003
The Waking Dream

as Screenplay

2003
2002
2002
2002
Le Canard à l'orange

as Screenplay

2002
Éclats d'Orphée

as Screenplay

1998
Flammes

as Writer

1998
Flammes

as Screenplay

1994
By the Lake

as Writer

1994
By the Lake

as Screenplay

1992
The Beach

as Writer

1992
The Beach

as Screenplay

1984
1984
The Role of Chance

as Screenplay

1982
The Angel

as Writer

1982
The Angel

as Screenplay

1974
Breakfast

as Writer

1974
Breakfast

as Screenplay

Editor

2021
Hum Drum

as Editor

2016
A Solar Dream

as Editor

1982
The Angel

as Editor

1974
Breakfast

as Editor

Visual Effects

2021
Hum Drum

as Special Effects Supervisor

1992
The Beach

as Visual Effects

Producer

2021
Hum Drum

as Delegated Producer

2020
Vers Syracuse

as Producer

Camera

2016
A Solar Dream

as Director of Photography

1982
The Angel

as Director of Photography

Crew

2018
Soar

as Cinematography

1994
By the Lake

as Special Effects

Art

1982
The Angel

as Production Design