Patrick Bokanowski
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- June 23, 1943
- Birthplace
- Algiers, Alger, France [now Algeria]
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.
Filmography
Gribouillisnowski 2025
Director
Beyond 2024
Director
Réminiscence 2022
Director
Hum Drum 2021
Director, Writer, Screenplay, Delegated Producer, Editor, Special Effects Supervisor
Une visite au musée 2021
Writer, Screenplay, Director
Vers Syracuse 2020
Director, Producer, Screenplay, Writer
L'indomptable 2018
Director, Screenplay, Writer
Soar 2018
Director, Cinematography, Screenplay, Writer
- Patrick Bokanowski - Genesis of 'Un rêve solaire'
Patrick Bokanowski - Genesis of 'Un rêve solaire' 2017
Actor
- Patrick Bokanowski : visite à l'atelier
Patrick Bokanowski : visite à l'atelier 2017
as Himself
A Solar Dream 2016
Actor, Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor, Screenplay, Producer
Un rêve 2014
Director, Screenplay, Writer
Solar Beats 2008
Director, Writer, Screenplay
The Waking Dream 2003
Director, Screenplay, Writer
- Paroles d'artistes
Paroles d'artistes 2003
as Self
Le Canard à l'orange 2002
as The Woman, Director, Writer, Screenplay
Éclats d'Orphée 2002
Director, Writer, Screenplay
Flammes 1998
Director, Writer, Screenplay
By the Lake 1994
Director, Special Effects, Writer, Screenplay
The Beach 1992
Visual Effects, Director, Screenplay, Writer
The Role of Chance 1984
Director, Screenplay, Writer
The Angel 1982
Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Production Design, Writer, Screenplay
A Creator of the Imaginary: Patrick Bokanowski - Short Film 1977
as Patrick Bokanowski
A Creator of the Imaginary: Patrick Bokanowski - Hieroglyphs 1975
as Patrick Bokanowski
Breakfast 1974
Editor, Director, Writer, Screenplay
The Woman Who Powders Herself 1972
Director, Editor, Screenplay, Writer
Little Rootie Tooti 1968
Director
Credits from TMDB.