Patrick Bokanowski

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1943-06-23 (82 years old)

Place of Birth

Algiers, Alger, France [now Algeria]

Patrick Bokanowski

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 rep...

Production

2021

Hum Drum

as Director

1982

The Angel

as Director

2021

Hum Drum

as Writer

2021

Hum Drum

as Editor

2021

Hum Drum

as Delegated Producer

2021

Hum Drum

as Screenplay

2021

Hum Drum

as Special Effects Supervisor

1992

The Beach

as Visual Effects

1974

Breakfast

as Editor

2002

1994

By the Lake

as Director

1974

Breakfast

as Director

1992

The Beach

as Director

1984

2008

Solar Beats

as Director

1998

Flammes

as Director

2022

Réminiscence

as Director

1982

The Angel

as Editor

1982

The Angel

as Director of Photography

1982

The Angel

as Production Design

2016

A Solar Dream

as Director

2002

2024

Beyond

as Director

1994

By the Lake

as Special Effects

1968

2018

Soar

as Director

2018

L'indomptable

as Director

1982

The Angel

as Writer

2014

Un rêve

as Director

2003

The Waking Dream

as Director

2016

A Solar Dream

as Writer

2016

A Solar Dream

as Editor

2016

A Solar Dream

as Director of Photography

2018

Soar

as Cinematography

2020

Vers Syracuse

as Director

2020

Vers Syracuse

as Producer

2018

L'indomptable

as Screenplay

2018

L'indomptable

as Writer

1984

The Role of Chance

as Screenplay

1994

By the Lake

as Writer

1982

The Angel

as Screenplay

1974

Breakfast

as Writer

1974

Breakfast

as Screenplay

1984

1994

By the Lake

as Screenplay

1992

The Beach

as Screenplay

1998

Flammes

as Screenplay

1992

The Beach

as Writer

2002

1998

Flammes

as Writer

2002

2014

Un rêve

as Screenplay

2018

Soar

as Writer

2014

Un rêve

as Writer

2003

The Waking Dream

as Screenplay

2008

Solar Beats

as Screenplay

2003

2008

Solar Beats

as Writer

2016

A Solar Dream

as Screenplay

2018

Soar

as Screenplay

2020

Vers Syracuse

as Screenplay

2021

2020

Vers Syracuse

as Writer

2021

2002

Éclats d'Orphée

as Screenplay

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