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...

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

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...

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

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

Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.

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

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

Embodying Rainer’s aesthetic rigor and wit, the film combines fiction and documentary, script readings, dance snippets, still photos, and...

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

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

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.

Chantal Akerman followed famous Choreographer Pina Bausch and her company of dancers, The Tanzteater Wuppertal, for five weeks while they were on...

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

Presents an intimate view of four decades of the Swiss-born artist Robert Frank who has had an extraordinary influence on contemporary photography...

A comedy about New York and its eccentric inhabitants. A French filmmaker comes to New York to show her film at MOMA. Fascinated by the city, she...

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."

Jean-Pierre Gorin examines the lives and cultural background of Samoan street gangs in Long Beach, California.

During the filming of "Jeanne Dielman" Sami Frey recorded what was happening on the set. A film about a film in the making.