What Maisie Knew preceded by (Now)

Director: Babette Mangolte

1975 / 70min / DCP

For a filmmaker fascinated by subjective perspective in the cinema, as Mangolte is, there could be few texts so rich for exploration as Henry James’s 1897 novel What Maisie Knew, which filters the follies of a divorced couple through the perspective of a child, their only daughter. Mangolte’s film is a radical re-reading of the source material, rich with flitting glimpses and fractured exchanges, with legendary choreographer Yvonne Rainer and composer Philip Glass among the recognizable faces in its cast. With (Now) or Maintenant Entre Parenthèses, a studio-shot short that shows Mangolte’s deep engagement with New York avant-garde filmmakers of the structuralist school.

Introduction and post-screening Q&A with Babette Mangolte on Sunday, September 3rd