Gray Hairs(2015)

Threnody(en)

Threnody emphasises some of the madness and instability of a year filled with fires, infections and general disarray.

Street Musique(en)

Animator Ryan Larkin does a visual improvisation to music performed by a popular group presented as sidewalk entertainers. His take-off point is the music, but his own beat is more boisterous than that of the musicians. The illustrations range from convoluted abstractions to caricatures of familiar rituals. Without words.

Tick Tack(xx)

Conceived, drawn and animated live by a team of patients from a psychiatric clinic, this achievement presents, in the eyes of its author, less interest on a purely cinematographic level than on that of human experience. It is the disturbing wordless story of a woman and a man living in a strange setting where objects are endowed with life that they have chosen to tell us through this theater of shadow puppets in cut out figurines. Their characters will know a tragic fate since carried in the air by balloons, they will finally be devoured by a horrible dragon.

Entr'Acte(xx)

A series of vaudeville acts inserted in images of reality, meant to demonstrate the ephemeral nature of all things.

A Solar Dream(fr)

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 art’s ability to generate imaginary and phantasmagorical worlds to the limit, multiplied here by Michèle Bokanowski’s enveloping music. A precious plastic and sonic gem.

Ab ovo - Traces of Sand(xx)

A non-narrative film thematising the eternal struggle of human life in a series of scenes connected by associations and accompanied by a strong music motif.

The Role of Chance(fr)

"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.

Solar Beats(fr)

Walking towards the fire. In a ceaseless stream of light, people, landscapes and objects lead us to mysterious regions. French filmmaker Patrick Bokanowski’s work is hard to classify - and all the richer for it. Together with his wife Michèle, whose musique concrète compositions form the basis of the sound design, Bokanowski offers a prolonged, dense and visually visceral experience of the kind that is rare in cinema today. Difficult to define and locate, its strangeness is quite unique.

Flammes(fr)

Memories split in the space.

Éclats d'Orphée(fr)

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

Extrapolate(nl)

A line is being extrapolated through a grid. When the line surpasses the boundaries of the grid, the process spreads to and reflects on its surroundings. Beyond each boundary the extrapolation of movement is causing deformation in a systematic but speculative way.

Swap Meet(en)

A collaborative experiment between 14 artists around the globe. Each artist creates a background, All backgrounds are traded randomly, and then animated upon freely.

Anima(en)

Abstract computer animation set to autoharp solo music composed and performed by Jordan Belson

Flying Image(en)

We swoop through action-filled rooms. Again and again, we fly past people and events without ever recognizing what is really going on. This film is a three-minute version of an endless-loop video originally designed as a project for exhibitions. It was shown at the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, the Künstlerhaus in Stuttgart and the Goethe Institut in Paris.

Here There(hr)

Here There gives graphic form to memory’s malleable, straying lines. It begins as a traveler’s sketchbook, drawn in Croatia in the summer of 2014, but details soon fade away into abstract impressions on the edges of memory. This film is a reduction to the essence, a condensed feeling of one place and time.

bling ring (whip-its!)(en)

denim and the 2000s

Ghost Tracks(fr)

The Comic that Frenches your Mind(en)

A 5 minute, 2D, straight-ahead animated film by Bruce Bickford.

To the Highest Point Near the Sun(en)

An animated exploration of the restraining and freeing of a bounded soul. A journey on the never-ending search of belongingness.

Fantaisie érotique(cs)