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Babette Mangolte (US born in France) is an experimental filmmaker and photographer known internationally living in New York and teaching in UCSD Visual arts....
Her practice was situated at a time when improvisation was a working tool in use everywhere in the theater and art world in downtown New York from the s to.
Babette Mangolte
French cinematographer and director
Babette Mangolte is a French cinematographer, film director, and photographer who has lived and worked in the United States since 1970.
Life and career
Mangolte was born and raised in France and moved to New York City in 1970. She attended L'Ecole Nationale de la Photographie et de la Cinematographie, graduating in 1966. Her move to New York was prompted by a disillusionment with the French film industry's male dominated climate, and an interest in experimental works by American filmmakers such as Jonas Mekas and Stan Brakhage.
In the 1970s she began documenting the performance works of notable choreographers such as Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, David Gordon, and Yvonne Rainer.[1] During this time, she also collaborated with director Chantal Akerman.
Together they made several films, the most notable of which are Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) and News from Home (1977).[2&