Babette Mangolte, professor at the university of San Diego, defines herself as a person predominated by the two senses of eye and ear and belongs to those female artists and filmmakers who discovered cinema with the New Wave. In the 60s and early 70s she moved from France to New York and due to her interest for experimental work she became involved in the artistic scene around dance, performance, and theater. Beneath her own documentaries and feature films she especially is know for some excellent camera work like for C.Akerman‘s film Jeanne Dielman.

Rosenbaum writes on Mangolte and he gives her the credit that she subtly agrees through her own style to the mentioned confusion as no illusion.

Her film Sky On Location is an exploration of landscape and light, light which makes the movement enfolding through the time captured. ‘Light is a narrative device–it gives you time and it defines space’. Keeping in mind that the filmic exploration of landscape always has some relation to a political statement.

Mangolte’s film Sky On Location is a careful analysis of the american identity and history as for a certain time to be read embedded in its geography. In her credits she relates her thoughts to Babara Novak‘s Nature and Culture and one finds congruence in her way to construct a geography not based on regular mappings .

.. an interview with Mangolte on her work can be found as pdf here.