Babette Mangolte
Also Known As: Elisabeth Mangolte
Biography: 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.
Department: Camera
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: Not available
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Home Movies 1971-81
Overview: Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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There? Where?
Overview: 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 voices? Are the images commenting on the images or vice versa?
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-28
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The Sky on Location
Overview: 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 elemental vicissitudes of the weather, the exact moment of the day, the colour of the light and the soil and the trees form an acute visual record of the constantly changing mood of the landscape. The film successfully attempts, with quiet, passionate, almost single-minded firmness, to confront us as nakedly as possible with our cultural inability to see nature whole, without preconceptions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-15
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Autour de Jeanne Dielman
Overview: During the filming of "Jeanne Dielman" Sami Frey recorded what was happening on the set. A film about a film in the making.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
Overview: Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-05
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Interview with Babette Mangolte
Overview: "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." – Chantal Akerman
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Simone Weil Avenue
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Cinématon
Overview: 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 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-12-20
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Cinématon IV
Overview: Reel 4 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-12-23
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