Babette Mangolte Movies

Furniture and clutter of one small apartment room become the subject of a moving still life—with Akerman herself staring back. This...

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...

Chantal Akerman followed famous Choreographer Pina Bausch and her company of dancers, The Tanzteater Wuppertal, for five weeks while they were on...

Hotel Monterey is a cheap hotel in New York reserved for the outcasts of American society. Chantal Akerman invites viewers to visit this unusual...

"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...

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

An unfinished Chantal Akerman film about the troubled youths and drug addicts going through rehabilitation in Yonkers. Myra Alfreds, who commissions...

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

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.

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

This key work of the late 1970s, now digitally restored, is a unique attempt to combine contemporary debates around formalism, feminism and...

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...

A naive look at Southern California by an outsider, and/or an essay on displacement through the disjunction of Californian images and off screen...

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...

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

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

"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...

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...

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...