Biography

Mangolte was born and raised in France and moved to New York City in 1970. She was the first woman accepted to L'Ecole Nationale de la Photographie et de la Cinematographie, graduating in 1966. In the 1970s she made several films with director Chantal Ackerman, most notable of which are Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is a 1975 film by Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman.Upon its release, The New York Times called Jeanne Dielman the "first masterpiece of the feminine in the history of the cinema." Chantal Akerman scholar Ivone Margulies asserts the picture is a...

 (1975) and News from Home

News from Home

News from Home is a 1977 documentary film directed by Chantal Akerman. The film consists of long takes of locations in New York City, set to Akerman's voice-over as she reads letters her mother sent her between 1971 and 1973, when the director lived in the city.-Production:In November 1971 at the...

 (1977).

She is known for her experimental film-making, which is influenced by the French New Wave and Structural Film

Structural film

Structural film was an experimental film movement prominent in the US in the 1960s and which developed into the Structural/materialist films in the UK in the 1970s.-Overview:The term was coined by P...

. For example, Jeanne Dielman... utilizes extremely lengthy static shots. She has made many films of dancers and performance artists, along with several documentaries and narrative films. Her films include both short and feature length. Her most recent film is Seven Easy Pieces

Seven Easy Pieces

Seven Easy Pieces was the title of a series of performances given by Marina Abramović at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City in 2005.In an interview in the New York Times in early November, 2005, Abramović explained the impetus for her most recent performances, stating that "she felt a strong...

 (2007), a documentary of the performance artist Marina Abramović

Marina Abramovic

Marina Abramović is a Belgrade-born New York-based Serbian performance artist who began her career in the early 1970s. Active for over three decades, she has recently begun to describe herself as the “grandmother of performance art.” Abramović's work explores the relationship between performer and...

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She is a professor at University of California, San Diego

University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...

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