Babette Mangolte Movies

A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick...

Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman lives in New York. Filmed images of the City accompany texts of Akerman's loving mother back home in Brussels. The...

An avant-garde examination of the relationship between women and money in society. Mixing musical, silent melodrama, and philosophical treatise into...

Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her. She suffers through her birthday...

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

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

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.

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

Rainer’s landmark film is a meditation on ambivalence that plays with cliché and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story...

Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.

The above narrative, by Simone Weil, the French philosopher and mystic, was written into her last notebook. The places filmed show where she lived...

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

Jean-Pierre Gorin interacts with a club of model railroad train enthusiasts and his mentor, artist/writer Manny Farber.

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...

Choreographed by american choreographer, Lucinda Childs, the film explores complex patterns that are created with the simple action of walking

The film is about looking. I bet that slight variations of few recurrent elements would encourage the viewer to free associate and to fantasize a...

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

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...

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

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.