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| Babette Mangolte is
an experimental filmmaker living in New York City. A complete
retrospective of her films and camerawork was organized by
Madeleine Bernstorff and Klaus Volkmer for the Berlin and
Munich Cinematheque in 2000. And in 2004 Anthology Films Archives
in New York City opened her recent film Les Modèles
de Pickpocket
(2003) accompanied by a retrospective of all her films. In
2007 her film Seven Easy Piecesby Marina
Abramovic (2007) premiered at the Berlinale 2007.
Her films and photo work were included in "The American
Century" show in 1999 at the Whitney Museum in New
York and "Century City" at the Tate Britain
in London in 2001.
Mangolte is also known for her photography of dance, theater
and performances. Her work was included with several performance
photographs and two film installations in a show titled "Art,
Lies and Videotapes: Exposing Performance" organized
by Adrian George at TATE Liverpool (United Kingdom) in 2003.
In 2007 she realized a new installation of her films and
photographs from the 1970’s in the show “Live
Art on Camera” at John Hansard Gallery, Southampton,
UK, Curator Alice Maude-Roxby and she participated in the
survey exhibition on performance history “ Un teatre
sense teatre” at Museu d’Art Contemporari de
Barcelona, Curator Bernard Blistene (touring to Museu Berardo,
Lisboa, Portugal and Wexner Art Center, USA). In summer 2007
Mangolte had her first retrospective solo show in the US
at BROADWAY 1602, New York which included the premier of “Richard
Serra, Film Portrait 1977.”
Mangolte will be included in the Berlin Biennale 2008.
She has published an essay on photography “My
History: The Intractable,” in October Fall
1998 and a text reflecting on changing technologies “A
Matter of Time: Analog versus Digital, the perennial question
of shifting technology and its implications for an experimental
filmmaker’s
odyssey” published in Camera Obscura Camera
Lucida: Essays in honor of Annette Michelson (Amsterdam
University Press 2002) that has been translated in French
(Trafic # 50 Spring 2004) and in German (Frau
and Films Fall 2004). In 2005, Mangolte wrote “Balancing
act between instinct and reason or how to organize volumes
on a flat surface in shooting photographs, films, and
videos of performance,” published in “After
the Act. The (Re)Presentation of Performance Art” (MOMU
Vienna ).
She is currently working on a text about Robert Bresson.
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Linda Patton in What Maisie Knew, film by Babette Mangolte
Delphine Seyrig in Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080,
Bruxelles, film by Chantal Akerman (Gros Plan/CU) 
Delphine Seyrig in Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080,
Bruxelles, film by Chantal Akerman (Plan d'ensemble/LS) |
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| FILMOGRAPHY & CINEMATOGRAPHY
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| Directed/Produced/Photographed & Edited
by Babette Mangolte |
| 1975 What Maisie Knew
58 min. 16mm B&W
1976 (Now) (Maintenant entre parentheses) 10 min. 16mm color
1977 The Camera: Je (La Camera: I) 88 min. 16mm Color
1978 Water Motor 9min. 16mm B&W - Choreography: Trisha
Brown
1979 There? Where? 8min. 16mm Color
1980 The Cold Eye (My Darling be Careful) 90min. 16mm B&W
1982 The Sky on Location 78min. 16mm Color
1991 Visible Cities 31 min. 16mm Color
1993 Four Pieces by Morris 94 min. 16mm Color - Choreography:
Robert Morris
1995-99 Dismantle(an essay on photography) 16mm Color in progress
2000 Homemade, 6 min. Super 8mm/Digi Beta Choreography: Trisha
Brown
2003 Les Modèles de Pickpocket, 89 minutes Digi Beta
PAL 16:9
2004 Roof and Fire Piece, 31 minutes, Choreography: Trisha
Brown 1973, DVD, ArtPix
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Director of Photography (selection) |
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1971 "L'Automne"
Marcel Hanoun 90min. 16mm B&W
1972 "Lives of Performers" Yvonne Rainer 90min.
16mm B&W
"The Room" Chantal Akerman 10min. 16mm Color
"Hotel Monterey" Chantal Akerman 100min. 16mm Color
1973 "Film About a Woman Who..." Yvonne Rainer 90min.
16mm B&W
"Rameau's Nephew" Michael Snow 210min. 16mm Color
co-credit
1974 "Glass Puzzle" Joan Jonas 24min. Videotape
1975 "Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles"
Chantal Akerman 195min. 35mm Color
1976 "Out of the Body Travel" Richard Foreman 90min.
Videotape
"News From Home" Chantal Akerman 90min. 16mm Color
1978 "Strong Medicine" Richard Foreman 85min. 16/35mm
Color
1979 "La Conquete de L'Espace" French TV Documentary
(co-credit)
"Sigmund Freud's Dora" Anthony McCall, Claire Pajaczkowska,
Andres Tyndall, Jane Weinstock 45min. 16mm Color
"New York Story" Jackie Raynal 35min. 16mm B&W/Color
1981 "The Gold Diggers" Sally Potter 85min. 35mm
B&W
1982 "Borneo Playback: A Sabah Story" Carol Kreeger
Davidson
90min. Videotape
1983 "Hotel New York" Jackie Raynal 60min. 16mm
Color
1984 "Un Jour Pina a demande..." Chantal Akerman
60min.16mmColor
1986 "Routines Pleasures" Jean Pierre Gorin 81min.
B&W/Color (DP & co-editor)
"Fire in the East: a Portrait of Robert Frank"
Philip Brookman and Amy Brookman 29min. Beta SP
1987 "Artist on Fire" Kay Armatage 60min. 16mm Color
"Radio Rick in Heaven and Radio Richard in Hell"
Richard Foreman 14min.B&W
"Lenz" JoAnn Akailitis 15min. 16mm B&W
1988 "The Road to Damascus (Life of Saint Paul of Tarse)"
Ludovic Segarra 35mm 100min. Color (France)
1991 "My Crazy Life" Jean Pierre Gorin 100 min.
16mm Color
1993 "Central Park" Sande Zeig 9 min. 16mm B&W
1994-95 “Robert Wilson, Visionary of the Theater”
CD-ROM project, Riverbed (Paul Kaiser, New York)
1998-2003 “The Interview” Ross Lipman 16mm/35mm
Color
2004 “Project Lygia Clark” with Suely Rolnik (in
progress) Digital Video PAL
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| Film Documentation |
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1976 Robert Rauschenberg exhibition show
at the Smithsonian Institute, National Gallery of Fines Arts,
Washington D.C.
1978 Robert Rauschenberg show ("Works from Captiva")
Vancouver Canada |
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| Video Documentation |
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| 1985 "The Making
of Lateral Pass" choreography by Trisha Brown, music
by Peter Zummo, set design by Nancy Graves, Minneapolis (Unedited
footage) |
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| Collections
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"What Maisie Knew"
Beaubourg Museum, Paris, France
New York Public Library, Donnell Branch, New York
National Library of Australia, Canberra
"The Camera:
Je"
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Institut National de l'Audio Visuel, Paris, France
"The
Cold Eye"
Berlin Cinematheque, Berlin, Germany
Bruxelles Royal Cinematheque, Bruxelles, Belgium
“There?
Where?”, “The Sky on Location”& “Visible
Cities”
Berlin Cinematheque, Berlin, Germany
“Four Pieces
by Morris”
New York Public Library, Lincoln Center Branch, New York
Cinematheque de la Danse, Paris, France
“Water Motor”
New York Public Library, Lincoln Center Branch, New York
Cinematheque de la Danse, Paris, France
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turino, Italy, Print in 35mm
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