
A little tiger decides to take a long journey in search of his stripes.
2025

Exclusively created with period engravings, this animated feature explores the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the ensuing Paris Commune revolution in 1871.
2021

Trying to keep together all the little beings that are fragments of yourself. Overwhelming states of shapeshifting through contradictory perceptions of the inner and the outer self. Feeling, not feeling, falling apart and finally reassembling and reconciling all the little beings into one loving self again.
2021

This walk in the daily life of several psychiatric institutions, allows us to meet extraordinary people who let us enter their privacy.
2020

Seeing the Great War, no longer content with simply recounting it, but showing it and embodying it: this is what comics offer today. By questioning archives and history, the comic book authors featured in this film engage in a dialogue with the depths of time. They bring the First World War back to life in our imagination: their drawings are more than just lines.
2017

One hundred years ago, Dadaism challenged ideological, aesthetic and political conventions. Like David Bowie or Terry Gilliam, many artists have been influenced or fascinated by this anti-conformist movement.
2016

2013

The life of two characters who follow each other beyond the walls.
2012

A short documentary about the life of director and artist René Laloux, featuring an interview with Laloux from 2001.
2010

Hurrah! Tomorrow is the 40th of November. It's Saint Feast Day, the great celebration of ogres, so hurry up now if you have not caught a child yet. And good hunting!
2007

2003

2003

Short film.
2001

Bokanowski returns to the complex - and mind-bending - optical array of pinholes, mirrors, prisms, and refractive substrates of his earlier film, La Plage to create the whimsical and playful Au bord du lac. The film is composed of mundane, everyday scenes of recreation and leisure on an idyllic, sunny day at a park that overlooks a lake - rowing a boat, playing a game of volleyball, rollerskating, bicycling, reading a newspaper, sunbathing, riding on horseback, or strolling on the promenade - shot through optical distortions to create fractured and knotted images that resemble embellished, gothic fairytale illustrations or appear to resolve into morphing, geometric patterns of fluid motion. Evoking the vibrant colors and sun-soaked palette of an invigorated Vincent van Gogh in Arles, Bokanowski transforms the quotidian into an infinitely mesmerizing dynamic kaleidoscope of shape-shifting textures and self-reconstituting objects of organic, abstract art.
1994

1989

"The Role of Chance" ("La part du hasard") focuses exclusively on drawing and painting techniques used by the painter Henri Dimier. Shot over several weeks in the same artist's studio, the film shows works in their different phases, processes rarely explained or little known. It also addresses many practical issues (choice of paper, pigment grinding, reports drawings, put the tiles, cliches, etc) as well as broader questions of method and inspiration (use of space, the role of contours, power of suggestion perspectives, use of random processes). Patrick Bokanowski sought with this film to restore the spirit of this teaching, showing how to bend a note or sometimes revealing an essential mystery of creation.
1984
1982

Documentary on industrial lubrification.
1981

A César nominated short animation about the impact on a small-town clerk by the arrival of a female hitch-hiker.
1975

On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra's inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those who live in slavery are treated as simple pets and used to entertain Draag children; those who live hidden in the hostile wilderness of the planet are periodically hunted and ruthlessly slaughtered as if they were vermin.
1973