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Patrick Bokanowski

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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.

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Patrick Bokanowski développe un travail entre les genres cinématographiques traditionnels : court-métrage, cinéma expérimental, animation. Sa manière de traiter le matériau filmique situe sa recherche à la frontière des arts optiques et plastiques, dans un « entre-deux » toujours à créer. Patrick Bokanowski révoque en doute l’idée que le cinéma doit -ce serait là son essence- reproduire la réalité, c’est-à-dire nos habitudes de penser et de sentir. Ses films contredisent l’ « objectivité » photographique à quoi est solidement arrimé l’essentiel de la production cinématographique mondiale. Les expérimentations de Bokanowski, en vue d’ouvrir le cinéma à d’autres possibilités expressives –par exemple le « gauchissement » des lentilles des objectifs (il préfère le terme de « subjectifs »)- témoignent de visions purement mentales qui ignorent les représentations conventionnelles, affectent la réalité, la métamorphosent, offrant ainsi au spectateur de ses films de nouvelles aventures perceptives.

Le long métrage L'Ange (1982) est son œuvre la plus marquante, fascinante et obsessionnelle, elle est accompagnée d'une bande-son réalisée par son épouse, Michèle Bokanowski.

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