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…

- Babette Mangolte

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 t…

- Babette Mangolte

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 wa…

- Babette Mangolte

The experimental film scene was very much misogynistic as well. I don't know if you have read what little attention was given to the films of Joyce W…

- Babette Mangolte

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.

- Babette Mangolte

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, s…

- Babette Mangolte

I met Michael Snow and Stan Brakhage the second day after I arrived, you know. I had never seen or heard of Brakhage. For me, it was a revolution, be…

- Babette Mangolte

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 extraordina…

- Babette Mangolte

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 …

- Babette Mangolte