Biography
Babette Mangolte (US born in France) is an experimental filmmaker and photographer known internationally living in New York and teaching in UCSD Visual arts department. Her installations are creating architectural spaces exploring different modes of interactivity for the spectators. Her writing on filmmaking practices and the impact of digital tools have had on filmmaking are published in a book edited by Luca lo Pinto and published by Sternberg Press in 2018.
In 2019 she had a retrospective of her works in film, photography and installations at the Rochechouart Castle Museum and she finished that year a feature film Calamity Jane & Delphine Seyrig: A story, 87 minutes (16mm 2K video). In 2022 she had a major exposition of her historical photographs in Arles Rencontre de la Photographie and was selected “Woman in Motion.”
Collection
What Maisie Knew
“Histoire du Cinema,” Beaubourg Museum, Paris
New York Public Library, Donnell Branch, New York
National Library of Australia, Canberra, 1990
The Camera: Je
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Institut National de l’Audio Visuel, Paris
Barcelona, Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) 2009
Water Motor
Cinematheque de la Danse, Paris, France (only DVD)
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turino, Italy, Print in 35mm 2008
Barcelona, Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) 2009
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France 2010
Tate Modern, London, UK. 2011
Inhotim Foudation, Bela Horizon, Brazil 2014
Cinematography Director of Photography (selection)
1971 “L’Automne” Marcel Hanoun 90min. 16mm B&W
1972 “Lives of Performers” Yvonne Rainer 90min. 16mm B&W
1972 “The Room” Chantal Akerman 10min. 16mm Color
1972 “Hotel Monterey” Chantal Akerman 100min. 16mm Color
1973 “Film About a Woman Who…” Yvonne Rainer 90min. 16mm B&W
1973-1974 “Rameau’s Nephew” Michael Snow 210min. 16mm Color co-credit
1975 “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles’ Chantal Akerman, with Delphine Seyrig, 185 minutes, 35 mm Color
1976 “News From Home” Chantal Alerman, 85 minutes, 16mm Color
1978 “Strong Medecine” Richard Foreman, with Kate Mannheim, 16mm blow-up 35 mm, 84 minutes, shot in 1978, released in 1981
1981 “The Gold Diggers” Sally Potter with Julie Christie, 85min. 35mm B&W
1982 “Borneo Playback: A Sabah Story” Carol Kreeger Davidson
90min. Videotape shot in Borneo
1983 “Hotel New York” Jackie Raynal 60min. 16mm Color
1984 “Un Jour Pina a demandé…” Chantal Akerman 60min.16mmColor
1984-1985 “Routines Pleasures” Jean Pierre Gorin 81min. B&W/Color (DP & co-editor)
1986 “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
1987 “Radio Rick in Heaven and Radio Richard in Hell” Richard Foreman 14min.B&W
1987 “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 Digital Video PAL Film Documentation, Shot in France and US (Project has footage shot in Brazil)
16mm Documentation
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
Video Documentation
1985/ 2013 “Shooting Lateral Pass” choreography by Trisha Brown, music by Peter Zummo, set design by Nancy Graves, Minneapolis
Ediited in 2013 by Mangolte and shown at Ludwig Aachen Museum, Germany