Babette Mangolte Quotes

• Conocí a Michael Snow y a Stan Brakhage al segundo día de llegar. Nunca había visto ni oído hablar de Brakhage. Para mí fue una revolución, porque tenía una buena formación cinematográfica, pero el cine experimental de estilo americano lo conocía en abstracto, y no había visto prácticamente nada. Entonces vi una película que Noël Burch había encontrado y distribuía, titulada Echoes of Silence. Era una película preciosa, de tres horas de duración. Era eterna y estaba en blanco y negro, muy granulada, y vi esa película y pensé... no era New Wave. Era realmente un nuevo concepto de cine.

  Babette Mangolte

  Beautiful, Black And White, Long

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• 1968 in Paris renewed my options. There was suddenly a desire of inventing new things, and I while I was working as an editor, the assistant editor thought I had a gift, and when he shot his own film, he hired me as his assistant camera, and I trained myself to do the light for him.

  Babette Mangolte

  Desire, Film

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• We had been affected by the fact that the film world was a man's world in Europe as much as here, in America actually.

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  World, Film

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• What interested me in film was the image-making aspect of it. So, I went to school in cinematography. I was really convinced that image was what I wanted to do, and I think it came from the fact that I lived in a small town my whole life, but my mother was very interested in painting, so she would bring us to Paris for two weeks. So, we're going to the Louvre and to the museums and to see shows. In the evening we were seeing theater. Painting is basically what led me. I think the image was key.

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  Mother, School, Thinking

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• In the '60s when I started to see everything I could see, you could see pretty much everything which was still available from the '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s, and therefore I had an education which was really large and vast in different cinema. That's probably the reason I did not fall for the New Wave. It's really the love of the movies that made me want to become a cameraperson, definitely. I was really a film buff.

  Babette Mangolte

  Fall, Different, Film

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• I'm really interested in experimental works, so the people that I admired the most was Dziga Vertov, Sergey Eisenstein, people from the '20s. Also, I loved John Ford and his westerns. The New Wave was not tender to women.

  Babette Mangolte

  People, Wave

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• La escena del cine experimental también era muy misógina. No sé si has leído la poca atención que se prestó a las películas de Joyce Wieland, que era la mujer de Michael Snow. Michael era el "genio" y ella no. Si miras las películas son maravillosas, pero muy diferentes. Michael también estaba muy orgulloso de las películas, así que no venía de él. Venía del entorno general. Creo que tanto Chantal Akerman como yo lo compartíamos. Queríamos encontrar un lenguaje, que era el lenguaje de las mujeres.

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  Thinking, Snow, Wife

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• It makes no sense to bad mouth people, but I think Jean-Luc Godard is astonishing as a survivalist, somebody who can do a film that is as extraordinary as Goodbye to Language.

  Babette Mangolte

  Adiós, Pensamiento, Gente

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• When the cinematography school told me I would have no chance to get a job, I said, "It's irrelevant." My mom was a feminist in the '20s. She taught me to be on my own, to be independent, to do what I wanted to do. I did not believe it would be difficult. It was difficult. In '66, I almost starved for a year and a half, and the only way I did not starve was because I could not find a job in camera, but I found a job in editing.

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  Mom, Believe, School

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• I felt it was really important to come here to see what was happening in New York. So, I came to see film and accidentally I stumbled upon theater, so I discovered Andre Gregory, Richard Foreman, Robert Wilson, and theater became my first anchor.

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  Important, Film

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