Patrick Bokanowski
Patrick Bokanowski is known for The Angel (1982), The Woman Who Powders Herself (1972), The Beach (1992).
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.
Questions about Patrick Bokanowski
How many Patrick Bokanowski films are in the catalogue?
The CineQuiz catalogue has 9 films with Patrick Bokanowski, from 1972 to 2022.
What was the first Patrick Bokanowski film?
The first Patrick Bokanowski film in the catalogue is The Woman Who Powders Herself, from 1972.
People data: TMDb.
Known for
Full filmography
26 films — 9 in the catalogue
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Au-delà
2024
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5.5 Réminiscence
2022
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7.0 Hum Drum
2021
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Une visite au musée
2021
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6.0 Vers Syracuse
2020
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7.0 L'indomptable
2018
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7.0 L'envol
2018
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7.0
Patrick Bokanowski : visite à l'atelier
2017 · Himself
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7.0
Patrick Bokanowski - Genèse d'Un rêve solaire
2017
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5.8 Un rêve solaire
2016
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7.0 Un rêve
2014
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8.4 Solar Beats
2008
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Paroles d'artistes
2003 · Self
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7.0 Le rêve éveillé
2003
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6.8 Le Canard à l'orange
2002 · The Woman
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7.5 Éclats d'Orphée
2002
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6.5 Flammes
1998
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5.9 Au bord du lac
1994
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7.2 The Beach
1992
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7.4 La part du hasard
1984
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6.8 The Angel
1982
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7.0 Un créateur de l'imaginaire : Patrick Bokanowski - Ciné-Court
1977 · Patrick Bokanowski
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7.0 Un créateur de l'imaginaire : Patrick Bokanowski - Hiéroglyphes
1975 · Patrick Bokanowski
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7.8 Breakfast
1974
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6.6 The Woman Who Powders Herself
1972
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Little Rootie Tooti
1968
People data: TMDb.
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