Animus

Monster mayhem from Sticky Monster Lab with freedom brigades and secret spaceships.

A 3D character run through the streets with waffle shoes

White circles appear and disappear on a black surface.

Selnef, the forest musician, plays the strings quietly by himself. Eventually, the forest begins to breathe deeply as the sound echoes.

The slow construction of an image, to the rhythm of steps, ends when the monster meets his Bride.

A couple of slackers' apartment is invaded by a garden shear-wielding maniac (think The Burning) bent on brutally murdering everyone in his path.

Rectangles pulsate to an electronic sound loop.

Ordinary life is suddenly invaded by a strange element which transforms reality.

A cat abuses his mouse-slave, serenades a girl-cat and devises a mousetrap.

The film begins with an obese woman going to the shoe store and insisting she's a size 3 1/2-though she's obviously much larger. Then, out of the blue, a cat and a stick figure appear and make fun of the woman-making fat jokes and the like.

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.