Babette Mangolte

Calamity Jane & Delphine Seyrig: A Story (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. The reading of those letters permits a self-reflection about feminism and motherhood. ...

Je, Nous, I or Eye, Us (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. The new film from 2014 uses footage shot at the time of The Camer ...

Edward Krasinski's Studio (2013)

Staging "Lateral Pass" (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. Involving a complex set and colorful costumes by Nancy Graves, choreography by Trisha Brown, and improvised ...

Roof Piece on the High Line (2012)

Trisha Brown original Roof Piece became an emblem of the 1970s for concentrating the spectator attention on far away rooftops. The 2011 dance in the compressed architectural space of the High Line demand that spectators move to see every dancer. The dance ...

Seven Easy Pieces (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. The project confronted the fact that little documentation exi ...

A Film Portrait of Richard Serra (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. I shot the film title in 1977 but only finished the film in 2007 ...

The Interview (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. Ross Lipman's one fiction film to date comes from a genre even more rare in the US than experimental work-adult drama. ...

The Models of 'Pickpocket' (2003)

A documentary that follows up on what happened to the three principle actors in Robert Bresson's "Pickpocket. ...

Four Pieces by Morris (1993)

The film is a reconstitution of the seminal performance work done in the early Sixties by the sculptor Robert Morris. ...

My Crasy Life (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. Part observational documentary, part f ...

Visible Cities (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. It is also unaffordable. They both feel as if they are invisible citizens. They ...

One Day Pina Asked... (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. Her objective was to capture Pina Bausch's unparalleled art not only on sta ...

Artist on Fire: Joyce Wieland (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. Artist on Fire: Joyce Wieland captures the vibrant spirit of this painter, coll ...

Routine Pleasures (1986)

Jean-Pierre Gorin interacts with a club of model railroad train enthusiasts and his mentor, artist/writer Manny Farber. ...

Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank (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. This documentary which examines his life through his films and photographs, includes intervie ...

Hotel New York (1984)

A comedy about New York and its eccentric inhabitants. A French filmmaker comes to New York to show her film at MOMA. Fascinated by the city, she decides to stay. ...

The Sky on Location (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. The ele ...

The Gold Diggers (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. ...

Strong Medicine (1981)

Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her. She suffers through her birthday party, goes to see a doctor, plans a vacation, argues a lot and even breaks the fourth wall. ...

New York Story (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. ...

The Cold Eye (My Darling, Be Careful) (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. You ne ...

There? Where? (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. Where is the location of these voices, here or there? Are the images near or far in relation to the voi ...

Sigmund Freud's Dora (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. Implicitly engaged in a critical dialogue with filmmakers like Yvonne Rainer and Jean-Luc Go ...

Water Motor (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. Mangolte shot Brown as she performed the solo twice, and then on the third ...

News from Home (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. ...

The Camera: Je or La Caméra: I (1977)

A subjective account of the act of making still photographs. ...

Globes (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. ...

Kristina Talking Pictures (1976)

Kristina, a self-named Hungarian female lion tamer, arrives in New York to become a dance choreographer. Kristina, now a middle-class NYC artist concerned about the environment, has a sailor lover named Raoul. The film, a collage work, an essay film, a fic ...

(Now) or Maintenant Entre Parenthèses (1976)

With Linda Patton and James Barth Silent, (24 frames per second) A linear succession of activities/manipulations of objects. ...

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (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. ...

What Maisie Knew (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. ...

A Street Harassment Film (1975)

Time: the 1970's. Place: New York City. This dramatized essay explores how women feel about verbal harassment by men on the street. What do they think? What do they want to do? ...

Film About a Woman Who… (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. ...

‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen (1974)

Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image. ...

Surprise Attack (1973)

A pair of one person's hands toss a block of lead back and forth. ...

Hotel Monterey (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. No score, the lobby is clean with granite floors, men wear hats, people enter and exit an elevator, the ...

Hanging Out Yonkers (1973)

An unfinished Chantal Akerman film about the troubled youths and drug addicts going through rehabilitation in Yonkers. Myra Alfreds, who commissions the film, accompanies Akerman and Mangolte on the film shoot in Yonkers, a city of nearly 200,000 inhabitan ...

Calico Mingling (1973)

Choreographed by american choreographer, Lucinda Childs, the film explores complex patterns that are created with the simple action of walking ...

Lives of Performers (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. ...

The Chamber (1972)

Furniture and clutter of one small apartment room become the subject of a moving still life—with Akerman herself staring back. This breakthrough formal experiment is Akerman's first film made in New York. ...

Winter (1969)

While working on a documentary about the city of Bruges, an artistically frustrated filmmaker must deal with the increasing difficulties in his marriage. ...

Summer (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. ...

Interview with Babette Mangolte (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 ...

Simone Weil Avenue (1992)

The above narrative, by Simone Weil, the French philosopher and mystic, was written into her last notebook. The places filmed show where she lived and worked during that time. It was 1942-43. ...

Home Movies 1971-81 (1985)

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years. ...

The Sky on Location (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. The ele ...

There? Where? (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. Where is the location of these voices, here or there? Are the images near or far in relation to the voi ...

Cinématon IV (1978)

Reel 4 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series. ...

Cinématon (1978)

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 ...

Autour de Jeanne Dielman (1975)

During the filming of "Jeanne Dielman" Sami Frey recorded what was happening on the set. A film about a film in the making. ...

‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen (1974)

Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image. ...