HOTEL MONTEREY (Babette Mangolte)
Babette Mangolte on HOTEL MONTEREY preceded by LA CHAMBRE | TIFF 2019 (YouTube) 58' (TIFF) 11 nov 2019 "Cinematographer Babette Mangolte, a longtime friend and collaborator of Chantal Akerman’s, joins us to present two of their earliest films together, consider the influence of the New York structural-film movement on Akerman’s work, and reflect on the filmmaker’s legacy Guest: Babette Mangolte Babette Mangolte is an experimental filmmaker and photographer based in New York. Her most recent solo shows include I = Eye at Kunsthalle Wien and Spaces to SEE at Rochechouart Musée d'Art Contemporain. She is currently completing a feature film and her next project is a book about photography. La Chambre (Chantal Akerman) BELGIUM, USA | 1972 | Silent 11 minutes A horizontal pendant to Hôtel Monterey's stacked verticality, La Chambre describes a continuous, 360-degree pan around Akerman's Spring Street apartment, depicting the filmmaker reclining on a bed like an odalisqu...