Movies: Babette Mangolte

  • 2012
    Roof Piece on the High Line

    Roof Piece on the High Line (2012)

    Roof Piece on the High Line

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    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 compressed architectural space of the High Line demand that spectators move to see every dancer. The...

    Roof Piece on the High Line
  • 2014
    Je, Nous, I or Eye, Us

    Je, Nous, I or Eye, Us (2014)

    Je, Nous, I or Eye, Us

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    "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 Je, La Camera: I' about taking photographs. The new film from 2014 uses footage shot at the time of The...

    Je, Nous, I or Eye, Us
  • 2007
    A Film Portrait of Richard Serra

    A Film Portrait of Richard Serra (2007)

    A Film Portrait of Richard Serra

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    "Film Portrait of Richard Serra was shot during the making of The Camera: Je but I felt that the footage showed such complicity between Richard and me that I decided it was a film on its own. I shot the film title in 1977 but only finished the film i...

    A Film Portrait of Richard Serra
  • 1973
    Surprise Attack

    Surprise Attack (1973)

    Surprise Attack

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

    Surprise Attack
  • 1976
    (Now) or Maintenant Entre Parenthèses

    (Now) or Maintenant Entre Parenthèses (1976)

    (Now) or Maintenant Entre Parenthèses

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

    (Now) or Maintenant Entre Parenthèses
  • 1973
    Calico Mingling

    Calico Mingling (1973)

    Calico Mingling

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

    Calico Mingling
  • 1980
    The Cold Eye (My Darling, Be Careful)

    The Cold Eye (My Darling, Be Careful) (1980)

    The Cold Eye (My Darling, Be Careful)

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    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 a young artist confronting the real world in terms of her own idealistic notions of what art is supposed to do. ...

    The Cold Eye (My Darling, Be Careful)
  • 1979
    There? Where?

    There? Where? (1979)

    There? Where?

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    A naive look at Southern California by an outsider, and/or an essay on displacement through the disjunction of Californian images and off screen voices. Where is the location of these voices, here or there? Are the images near or far in relation to t...

    There? Where?