Patrick Bokanowski
"Patrick Bokanowski, French filmmaker and artist born in 1943, has developed a manner of treating filmic material that crosses over traditional boundaries of film genre: short film, experimental cinema and animation. His work lies on the edge between optical and plastic art, in a 'gap' of constant reinvention. Patrick Bokanowski challenges the idea that cinema must, essentially, reproduce reality, our everyday thoughts and feelings. His films contradict the photographic 'objectivity' that is firmly tied to the essence of film production the world over. Bokanowski's experiments attempt to open the art of film up to other possibilities of expression, for example by 'warping' his camera lens (he prefers the term 'subjective' to 'objective' - the French word for 'lens'), thus testifying to a purely mental vision, unconcerned with film's conventional representations, affecting and metamorphosing reality, and thereby offering to the viewer of his films new adventures in perception." - Pierre Coulibeuf
Filmografia :
1970-1972 :La femme qui se poudre, 16 mm, n&b, 18 min
1972-1974 : Déjeuner du matin, 16 mm, n&b, 12 min
1976-1982 : L'ange, 35 mm, couleurs, 70 min
1984 : a part du hasard, 16 mm, couleurs, 56 min
1991-1992 : La plage, 16 mm, couleurs, 14 min
1993 : Au bord du lac, 16 mm, couleurs, 6 min
1998 : Flammes, 35 mm, couleurs, 3 min 30
Expositions:
Dessins, Studio 102, Grenoble, organisé par la Cellule.
Metamkine, 1991.
Dessins, galerie Nogizaka Arthali, Tokyo, 1992.
Dessins (1993) et peintures (1996), galerie Weillert Paris.
Installation avec Pitch (Christophe Cardoen), exposition « Projection, les transports de l'image », Le Fresnoy, 1997.
IMDB
The Beach
"There are now films like THE BEACH which belong to a sort of aristocracy of experimental film - which is just an arbitrary term meaning that a film's plastic aspect is just as important as its meaning or storyline - and Patrick Bokanowski's film has an almost classical quality in this sense, insofar as it is composed like a painting, or, perhaps because of Michèle Bokanowski's contribution, like a piece of music. In THE BEACH, one no longer associates his work with Kafka or Isidore Ducasse, but rather with the light-filled drawings of Victor Hugo or Seurat, Tanguy or even Mir-. It's as if a period of nightmares had come to an end, and a new sense of something like serenity had taken over." - Dominique Noguez from the preface to the Bokanowski retrospective at the Musée du Jeu de Paume, February/March 1994
1992, 16mm, color/so, 13m
Dejeuner du Matin
"This very short film takes us outside of time as we know it and drops us into a different kind of timespan and into a different world. To a certain extent it can be called 'surreal,' but only in reference to the filmmaker's own vision. It can be called a dreamscape, but don't go looking for any hidden meanings in these disturbing images. Such as that long nocturnal hallway we've walked down in our dreams, down which psychoanalysts have followed their customers, or on their own behalf. It leads us into the deepest depth of ourselves.
"Plastically speaking, the work is superb. It touches us physically before affecting us metaphysically. In the dark depths of a field, a strange and displaced peasantry is scything an invisible yield." - Claude Mauriac from V.S.D. magazine, June 1979
1974, 16mm, color/so, 12m
Degeneur du matin
Patrick Bokanowski.-.Dejeuner_du_matin (1972-1974).mov 
La Plage
Patrick Bokanowski.-.La_plage (1991-1992).mov
No se si han sido posteados ya en DXC, he sido incapaz de encontrarlos. La calidad no es para tirar cohetes pero que yo sepa, es lo único disponible del hipnótico Bokanowski. Pocas fuentes.
Saludos
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