According to Raphaël Bassan , in his article « '' The Angel '' : Un météore dans le ciel de l'animation , » '' La Revue du cinéma '' , n ° 393 , avril 1984 . , Patrick Bokanowski 's '' The Angel '' , shown in 1982 at the Cannes Film Festival , can be considered the beginnings of contemporary animation . The masks erase all human personality in the characters . Patrick Bokanowski would thus have total control over the " matter " of the image and its optical composition . This is especially noticeable throughout the film , with images taken through distorted objectives or a plastic work on the sets and costumes , for example in the scene of the designer . Patrick Bokanowski creates his own universe and obeys his own aesthetic logic . It takes us through a series of distorted areas , obscure visions , metamorphoses and synthetic objects . Indeed , in the film , the human may be viewed as a fetish object ( for example , the doll hanging by a thread ) , with reference to Kafkaesque and Freudian theories on automata and the fear of man faced with something as complex as him . The ascent of the stairs would be the liberation of the ideas of death , culture , and sex that makes us reach the emblematic figure of the angel
Cannes Film Festival
1982 Cannes Film Festival
Cinema of France