- Amos Vogel
Amos Vogel (born 1921 in Vienna, Austria, as Amos Vogelbaum) is among the most influential cineasts of the 20th century. He is best known for his book "Film as a Subversive Art" (1974), still among the most unorthodox film histories ever published, and as the founder of the New York City avantgarde ciné-club
Cinema 16 (1947-1963), where he was the first programmer to present films byRoman Polanski ,John Cassavetes ,Nagisa Oshima ,Jacques Rivette andAlain Resnais as well as early and important screenings by American avant-gardists of the time likeStan Brakhage ,Maya Deren ,James Broughton ,Kenneth Anger ,Sidney Peterson ,Bruce Conner ,Carmen D'Avino and many others. In 1963, together withRichard Roud , he founded theNew York Film Festival , and served as its program director until 1968. In 1973, Vogel started the Annenberg Cinematheque at theUniversity of Pennsylvania and was eventually given a Chair for film studies at theAnnenberg School for Communication , where he taught and lectured for two decades.He fled Nazism with his parents in 1938 to the American South, where, he noted, the racial divide was analogous to the
anti-Semitism he witnessed in Europe.Vogel participated in the 2003 documentary "In the Mirror of
Maya Deren " by Martina Kudlácek.Work
"
Film as a Subversive Art ", 1974Films about Vogel
"Film as a Subversive Art: Amos Vogel and Cinema 16", Paul Cronin, UK, 2003; 56m
External links
* [http://www.thestickingplace.com/film/film-as-a-subversive-art/ Film as a Subversive Art: Amos Vogel and Cinema 16 documentary]
* [http://www.thestickingplace.com/film/film-as-a-subversive-art/biography.php Amos Vogel biography]
* [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/10202 Censoring Cuba]
* [http://www.angoleiro.com/subversive_nub/ The Subversive Nub]
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