Babette Mangolte
Babette Mangolte is a French-American artist, photographer and experimental filmmaker who played a pioneering role in documenting dance, performance and theatre in the 1970s in New York. After graduating as a director of photography from the École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière, she moved to New York in 1971 and met director Chantal Akerman, with whom she shared a feminist point of view, and they collaborated on numerous films. She then directed her first film What Maisie Knew in 1975, which was just the beginning of a long list of other films she went on to direct, such as The Cold Eye in 1980. Among her most recent films, Seven Easy Pieces by Marina Abramović premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2007. She made two films about the choreography of Yvonne Rainer, AG Indexical in 2007 and RoS Indexical in 2008, as well as Roof Piece on the High Line in 2012, depicting choreography by Trisha Brown. Mangolte is also known for her photographic archive documenting experimental theatre, dance, and performance art of the 1970s and 1980s. She also publishes essays and theorizes about her performance documentary photography practice.
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