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Babette Mangolte is a French cinematographer, film director, and photographer who has lived and worked in the United States since 1970. She is best known for her work with film director Chantal Akerman.
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12 September 1987
Considered one of Canada's most important women artists of the second half of the 20th century, Joyce Wieland's art embodies the essence of her homeland, feminism, and ecology.
25 November 1981
Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her.
01 January 1992
The above narrative, by Simone Weil, the French philosopher and mystic, was written into her last notebook.
01 January 1985
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
21 January 1976
A lonely young widow lives with her son following an immutable order: while the boy is in school, she cares for their apartment, does chores, and receives clients in the afternoon.
30 April 1986
Jean-Pierre Gorin interacts with a club of model railroad train enthusiasts and his mentor, artist/writer Manny Farber.
01 January 1983
An avant-garde examination of the relationship between women and money in society. Mixing musical, silent melodrama, and philosophical treatise into a post-punk, heady brew.
11 December 1974
Rainer’s landmark film is a meditation on ambivalence that plays with cliché and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger.
19 March 2020
Delphine Seyrig decided to work on a film project about Calamity Jane to reveal Jane’s sensibility and insight about life in those letters to her daughter.
02 November 1976
Kristina, a self-named Hungarian female lion tamer, arrives in New York to become a dance choreographer.
01 January 2014
"The film Je, Nous, I or Eye, Us is a mini essay that replies to a question about subjectivity in the 1970s while I was making my film 'The Camera Je, La Camera: I' about taking photographs.
20 May 1975
The film is about looking. I bet that slight variations of few recurrent elements would encourage the viewer to free associate and to fantasize a kind of narrative.
05 November 1974
Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.
08 December 1980
Autobiographical film about Loulou (Jackie Raynal) who seeks a job as an editor on Broadway, shares a loft in Soho and marries an entrepreneur.
20 December 1978
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011.
01 January 2007
"Film Portrait of Richard Serra was shot during the making of The Camera: Je but I felt that the footage showed such complicity between Richard and me that I decided it was a film on its own.
01 January 1979
This key work of the late 1970s, now digitally restored, is a unique attempt to combine contemporary debates around formalism, feminism and psychoanalysis in film.
01 January 1991
Two women are in search of a home in the Southern California landscape. From the outside looking in, they see the single-family home as the locus of the exclusion of the other.
01 January 2012
Trisha Brown original Roof Piece became an emblem of the 1970s for concentrating the spectator attention on far away rooftops.
02 January 1978
A filmed record of a solo performance by American postmodern dancer and choreographer Trisha Brown. In order to better understand the dance, Mangolte learned to perform it herself.
01 January 1975
Time: the 1970’s. Place: New York City. This dramatized essay explores how women feel about verbal harassment by men on the street.
01 January 2004
Two women meet at a crossroads... A chance encounter between two women struggling to stay afloat, in an era of the downsizing of dreams.
01 January 2013
The film chronicles the work of choreographer and dancers on the stage in Minneapolis preceding the premiere of Trisha Brown’s Lateral Pass in 1985.
02 January 1973
Choreographed by american choreographer, Lucinda Childs, the film explores complex patterns that areg
24 April 1976
With Linda Patton and James Barth Silent, (24 frames per second) A linear succession of activities/manipulations of objects.
01 September 1973
New York City's Monterey is a residence hotel, whose inhabitants are older and primarily live alone. The camera, usually stationery, observes the lobby.
15 February 2007
For Seven Easy Pieces Marina Abramovic reenacted five seminal performance works by her peers, dating from the 1960's and 70's, and two of her own, interpreting them as one would a musical score.
07 July 1989
Chantal Akerman followed famous Choreographer Pina Bausch and her company of dancers, The Tanzteater Wuppertal, for five weeks while they were on tour in Germany, Italy and France.
23 March 1973
An unfinished Chantal Akerman film about the troubled youths and drug addicts going through rehabilitation in Yonkers.
29 March 2003
A documentary that follows up on what happened to the three principle actors in Robert Bresson's "Pickpocket.
01 January 1986
Presents an intimate view of four decades of the Swiss-born artist Robert Frank who has had an extraordinary influence on contemporary photography and filmmaking.
01 January 1975
During the filming of "Jeanne Dielman" Sami Frey recorded what was happening on the set. A film about a film in the making.
20 May 1977
Impersonal and beautiful images of Akerman's life in New York are combined with letters from her loving but manipulative mother, read by Akerman herself.
31 December 1969
While working on a documentary about the city of Bruges, an artistically frustrated filmmaker must deal with the increasing difficulties in his marriage.
19 January 1992
Jean-Pierre Gorin’s gripping and unique film about a Samoan street gang in Long Beach, California, is, like other works by the filmmaker, a probing look at a closed community with its own rules, rituals, and language.
01 November 1993
The film is a reconstitution of the seminal performance work done in the early Sixties by the sculptor Robert Morris.
15 March 1984
A comedy about New York and its eccentric inhabitants. A French filmmaker comes to New York to show her film at MOMA.
01 January 1977
A subjective account of the act of making still photographs.
30 November 1968
During the summer of 1968, a young French woman staying in an isolated country house reflects upon her involvement in the events of that May.
01 January 1972
Furniture and clutter of one small apartment room become the subject of a moving still life—with Akerman herself staring back.
28 August 1979
A naive look at Southern California by an outsider, and/or an essay on displacement through the disjunction of Californian images and off screen voices.
12 August 1972
Embodying Rainer’s aesthetic rigor and wit, the film combines fiction and documentary, script readings, dance snippets, still photos, and tableaux vivants to explore issues of power and gender that influence the emotional lives of her performers.
01 January 1980
A “narrative” film centered on young artists living in New York City around 1979. The film is about a certain stage in the development of a young artist confronting the real world in terms of her own idealistic notions of what art is supposed to do.
23 November 1978
Portrait of French filmmaker and photographer Babette Mangolte shot in Hyères (France) on September 2, 1978 at 11:15 AM.
15 September 1983
A personal meditation on the landscape of the American West that tracks the ruling conception in nature in the 19th and 20th centuries from the pioneers through the instamatic tourists, at the same time that it obsessively follows the four seasons.
23 November 1978
Portrait of American art critic Deke Dusinberre shot in Hyères (France) on September 2, 1978 at 11:00 AM.
31 December 1973
A pair of one person's hands toss a block of lead back and forth.
01 January 1977
Cultural and perceptual contrasts are evoked in this non-linear mythic episode in which a hammer, a paintbrush, a bucket, a pile of clothes, a window full of globes and a couple are manipulated via the filmmaker/demi-urge.
01 January 1970
In this recently rediscovered home movie, three women—Chantal Akerman, Babette Mangolte, and Epp Kotkas—share a precious moment of laughter and friendship while filming Hotel Monterey in 1972 in New York.
01 January 2007
"To begin with, we have Babette Mangolte, the camera technician on Hotel Monterey, La Chambre and Jeanne Dielman, but who for me also symbolises the New York years, she introduced me into the very core of what was new, even revolutionary, in New York, and our interview is about the city of New York in the early 70s.
