Solar Beats

Solar Beats

2008•18m•8.4/10

Animation

Ratings

🎬TMDb

8.4/10(7)

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.

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Production

Kira B.M. Films, ARTE

Language

FR

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Christophe Auger

#1

Gaëlle Rouard

Gaëlle Rouard

Michèle Bokanowski

Michèle Bokanowski

#2

Étienne Caire

Étienne Caire

#3

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