Patrick Bokanowski
Known for
Directing
Born
June 23, 1943 (age 83)
Birthplace
Algiers, Alger, France [now Algeria]
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 an...
Best known work
The Angel
1982
The Woman Who Powders Herself
1972
The Beach
1992
Flammes
1998
Breakfast
1974
By the Lake
1994
A Solar Dream
2016
Solar Beats
2008
Le Canard à l'orange
2002
The Role of Chance
1984Filmography
2024
BeyondDirector
2022
RéminiscenceDirector
2021
Hum DrumDirector, Writer, Screenplay, Editor, Special Effects Supervisor, Delegated Producer
2021
Une visite au muséeWriter, Director, Screenplay
2020
Vers SyracuseDirector, Producer, Screenplay, Writer
2018
L'indomptableDirector, Screenplay, Writer
2018
SoarDirector, Cinematography, Writer, Screenplay
2017
Patrick Bokanowski : visite à l'atelieras Himself
2017
2016
A Solar DreamDirector, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography, Screenplay, Producer
2014
Un rêveDirector, Screenplay, Writer
2008
Solar BeatsDirector, Writer, Screenplay
2003
Paroles d'artistesas Self
2003
The Waking DreamDirector, Screenplay, Writer
2002
Le Canard à l'orangeas The Woman, Writer, Director, Screenplay
2002
Éclats d'OrphéeDirector, Writer, Screenplay
1998
FlammesDirector, Writer, Screenplay
1994
By the LakeDirector, Special Effects, Writer, Screenplay
1992
The BeachVisual Effects, Director, Writer, Screenplay
1984
The Role of ChanceDirector, Writer, Screenplay
1982
The AngelDirector, Editor, Director of Photography, Production Design, Writer, Screenplay
1977
A Creator of the Imaginary: Patrick Bokanowski - Short Filmas Patrick Bokanowski
1975
A Creator of the Imaginary: Patrick Bokanowski - Hieroglyphsas Patrick Bokanowski
1974
BreakfastEditor, Director, Writer, Screenplay
1972
The Woman Who Powders HerselfDirector, Editor, Writer, Screenplay