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"As the subject of one of the Essay Film Festival’s special focuses, cinematographer, photographer, writer and director Babette Mangolte was welcomed to the stage by Laura Mulvey. Having outlined the trajectory of her impressive career; Mulvey spoke, as a friend and a direct contemporary, of Mangolte’s 1970s beginnings. A pivotal time for women’s cinema, of which Mangolte found herself at many centres, it was, as Mulvey surmised, “a moment of political and aesthetic importance.”"