Patrick Bokanowski Movies

The climbing of an immense staircase made up of the most varied stairs- Symbolic scenes occur on different levels where characters seem to be...

A study of human anxieties about beauty, youth and objectification.

Memories split in the space.

Reworked and colored images of people playing at the seashore.

Relentlessly reworking ‘real’ images, using techniques borrowed from painting and animated film, Patrick Bokanowski is an author of...

Bokanowski returns to the complex - and mind-bending - optical array of pinholes, mirrors, prisms, and refractive substrates of his earlier film, La...

Behold the struggle between light and dark, the two principles that are at the very heart of the cinematic deed. A Solar Dream takes the seventh...

Walking towards the fire. In a ceaseless stream of light, people, landscapes and objects lead us to mysterious regions. French filmmaker Patrick...

A housewife is preparing a duck à l'orange in her kitchen. But the reluctant bird tries to escape from her but the woman manages to recaptures...

"The Role of Chance" ("La part du hasard") focuses exclusively on drawing and painting techniques used by the painter Henri Dimier. Shot over several...

Film directed from the play "Orpheon", directed by François Tanguy, played by the Compagny of Raft.

Crossing through darkness towards the light.

Dreamlike sea bathing and horse rides. Colors take the plunge, the horizon blazes, breaking waves pound endlessly. A strange journey through depths...

"The blue gallop of remembrance.." (Apollinaire)

A painter in his studio: his pencils, brushes, tubes, table, easel and drawings set themselves in motion in an explosion of colors and flashes of...

2018 short film by Patrick Bokanowski

Choreography of an imaginary journey.

Short documentary by Pip Chodorov showing Patrick Bokanowski's process in making "Un rêve solaire".

In this documentary, under the gaze of Pip Chodorov, Patrick Bokanowski evokes the genesis of his films and shows, by explaining them, a certain...

Experimental film by Patrick Bokanowski.