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Patrick BOKANOWSKI
“Un rêve solaire”
This boxset contains the second and latest feature film by Patrick Bokanowski (2015-2016) as well as a new making-of by Pip Chodorov, along with a 16-page booklet.Unlike “L’ange” shot in the studio, “Un rêve solaire” is largely made up of real shots. The actors are no longer played under masks. The actors are us, spectators of unknown representations, or maybe even stellar spectators, a crowd of anonymous spectators standing out on skies of fire and water, but surely a part of a childhood dream during a journey by train.“There are not, or very few, words in my films. The music of Michèle Bokanowski plays a decisive role because it tells in its own way and in counterpoint what images or characters do not say.” Patrick Bokanowski“Un rêve solaire tells, concretely, of a struggle between shadow and light. These two simultaneous movements give the film its dynamic principle and its plastic energy.” Jacques Kermabon“Un rêve solaire”, Patrick Bokanowski (2015-2016), HD video, color, sound, 63’.Bonus: “Patrick Bokanowski - Genesis of “Un rêve solaire””, Pip Chodorov, 2017, HD video, color, sound, 7’.
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Patrick BOKANOWSKI
“Courts-métrages”
This boxset contains 10 short films by Patrick Bokanowsk as well as one documentary about Patrick Bokanowski, as well as a booklet of 44 pages.Blu-ray / DVD Pal Interzone · 4:3/16:9 · Stereo · 126 mins · English subtitles. Films by Patrick Bokanowski, musics by Michèle Bokanowski.“La Femme qui se poudre”, 35mm, 1972. “Déjeuner du matin”, 35mm, 1974. “La Plage”, 35mm, 1991. “Au bord du lac”, 35mm, 1993. “Flammes”, 35mm, 1998. “Eclats d’Orphée”, 35mm, 2002. “Le Canard à l’orange”, 35mm, 2002. “Battements solaires”, 35mm, 2008. “L'Envol”, HD, 2018. “L’Indomptable”, HD, 2018. Bonus : “Visit à l'atelier”, a film by Pip Chodorov, 2017, HD video, color.“Télévision de chambre”, title animation by Patrick Bokanowski, ©1984 Ina, 35mm.“A work of experimentation? Sure - but in which beauty and sensitivity, humor and anxiety creep in as Patrick Bokanowski recomposes, in his own way, these primordial elements, as one might rebuild a figure from the remnants of the exploded bits of an academic statue.” Jean-Michel Frodon, Le Monde“Do not attempt to understand the signification of these disturbing images. The work is visually superb. It touches us physically before reaching us metaphysically. In a field of shadows, these disoriented peasants harvest the invisible. Déjeuner du matin (Morning Breakfast) is a masterpiece.” Claude Mauriac, VSD“The brilliance of an ochre sea gives way to the rushing sparkles of fireworks, a rain of colors, a swarm of matter, to abstraction. There may be a thousand ways to fail to describe what is played out between Battements solaires and its beholder, the spectator transfixed by this symphony of colors and mysteries. Michèle Bokanowski's music provides an equally indefinable dimension.” Jaques Kermabon, Bref“La Femme qui se poudre had already shown us that this filmmaker, relentlessly transforming 'real' images through techniques borrowed from painting and animation, was capable of creating a world of madness and cataclysm and of beauty beyond words. Déjeuner du matin (Morning Breakfast) is a quite worthy successor. Simply put, it's a magnificent piece of cinema.” Michel Perez, Le Matin de Paris.
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Anne MAREGIANO
“Charlemagne Palestine, The golden sound”
“Born in New York City, composer, performer, and visual artist Charlemagne Palestine was a contemporary of Steve Reich and Phillip Glass in the avantgarde classical music scene of the 1960s and 1970s. On stages filled with his own home-made stuffed animals, Palestine performs his trance-like strumming music. He is often referred to as a minimal composer, but rejects that in favour of "maximalism". Anne Maregiano’s documentary about Palestine, The Golden Sound (2011), allows the artist to tell his own story while putting his music and performance, in long, unedited takes, at the centre of the film…” - Michael Garrad, (Close Up)
Bonus Films: “The Red Suitcase” by Anne Maregiano (2011). “Body Music “by Charlemagne Palestine (1975). “Charlemagne 2 : Piltzer” by Pip Chodorov (2002).
“Sound Recording: March 7, 1975” by Charlemagne Palestine.
Book (44 pages) with texts written by Ingram Marshall, Roland Spekle, Pip Chodorov and Anne Maregiano. Photos by Kathleen Agnoli, Elaine Hartnett, James Lapine, Charlemagne Palestine.
English with French subtitles.
19,90€