Patrick Bokanowski

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 LAnge 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 inbetween to create He calls into question the idea that cinemas 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 Bokanowskis 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 LAnge Un météore dans le ciel de lanimation Patrick Bokanowskis work can be considered the beginnings of contemporary animation