--- title: "2 Experimental Film Quotes By Babette Mangolte" description: "2 Experimental Film quotes by Babette Mangolte. Plus more from Babette Mangolte and more Experimental Film sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/def/babette-mangolte-42474_abstract_i-met-michael-snow-and-stan-brakhage-the_839057.jpg" --- > [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, because I was well educated in film, but American-style experimental film…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/babette-mangolte/i-met-michael-snow-and-stan-brakhage-the-second-day-after-i-arrived/) [Babette Mangolte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/babette-mangolte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/def/babette-mangolte-42474_abstract_i-met-michael-snow-and-stan-brakhage-the_839057.jpg) > [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 Wieland, who was the wife of Michael Snow. Michael was the "genius" and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/babette-mangolte/the-experimental-film-scene-was-very-much-misogynistic-as-well-i-don/) [Babette Mangolte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/babette-mangolte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4c/babette-mangolte-42474_attention_the-experimental-film-scene-was-very-muc_1622335.jpg) ## More by 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/babette-mangolte/what-interested-me-in-film-was-the-image-making-aspect-of-it-so-i/) [Babette Mangolte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/babette-mangolte/1968-in-paris-renewed-my-options-there-was-suddenly-a-desire-of/) [Babette Mangolte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/babette-mangolte/i-met-michael-snow-and-stan-brakhage-the-second-day-after-i-arrived/) [Babette Mangolte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/babette-mangolte/we-had-been-affected-by-the-fact-that-the-film-world-was-a-man-s/) [Babette Mangolte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/babette-mangolte/it-makes-no-sense-to-bad-mouth-people-but-i-think-jean-luc-godard-is/) [Babette Mangolte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/babette-mangolte/the-experimental-film-scene-was-very-much-misogynistic-as-well-i-don/) [Babette Mangolte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/babette-mangolte/i-felt-it-was-really-important-to-come-here-to-see-what-was-happening/) [Babette Mangolte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/babette-mangolte/when-the-cinematography-school-told-me-i-would-have-no-chance-to-get/) [Babette Mangolte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/babette-mangolte/) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/babette-mangolte/i-m-really-interested-in-experimental-works-so-the-people-that-i/) [Babette Mangolte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/babette-mangolte/) > [In the '60s when I started to see everything I could see, you could see pretty much everything which was still available from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/babette-mangolte/in-the-60s-when-i-started-to-see-everything-i-could-see-you-could-see/) [Babette Mangolte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/babette-mangolte/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/experimental-film/babette-mangolte/#itemlist", "name": "2 Experimental Film Quotes By Babette Mangolte", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I met Michael Snow and Stan Brakhage the second day after I arrived, you know. I had never seen or heard of Brakhage. 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