Babette Mangolte
Born: 1941
in Montmorot (France).
She lives and works in New York (USA).
Babette Mangolte, born in 1941, is a French-American experimental filmmaker, photographer and documentary-maker. Since the mid-1970s, through some twenty films, she has been exploring the subjectivity of the camera, the role of the viewer, and the human body’s relationship with space.
After arriving in New York in 1971, she plunged into the dance, performance and experimental theatre scenes, and captured these practices through her films and photographs. In this way, she actively contributed to creating an archive of performance, seeking to situate those moments in a specific historical and spatial context.
