Patrick Bokanowski

Personal Info

Known For Directing

Known Credits 24

Gender Male

Birthday June 23, 1943 (80 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

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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.

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.

Directing

2022
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2020
2018
2018
2016
2014
2008
2003
2002
2002
1998
1994
1992
1984
1982
1974
1972
1968

Writing

2021
2021
2020
2018
2018
2016
2014
2008
2003
2002
2002
1998
1994
1992
1984
1982
1974
1972

Acting

2017
2017
2016
2002
1977
1975

Editing

2021
2016
1982
1974
1972

Visual Effects

2021
1992

Production

2021
2020

Crew

2018
1994

Camera

2016
1982

Art

1982

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