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 by Roman Polanski, John Cassavetes, Nagisa Oshima, Jacques Rivette and Alain Resnais as well as early and important screenings by American avant-gardists of the time like Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren, James Broughton, Kenneth Anger, Sidney Peterson, Bruce Conner, Carmen D'Avino and many others. Cinema 16 was a New York city based Film society founded by Amos Vogel. John Nicholas Cassavetes ( December 9, 1929 – February 3, 1989) was an American Actor, Screenwriter, and director Jacques Rivette (born March 1, 1928) is a French Film director. Alain Resnais (born June 3 1922 in Vannes, France) is a French Film director whose early works are often grouped within the New Wave or Stan Brakhage ( January 14, 1933 – March 9, 2003) was an American non-narrative Filmmaker Maya Deren ( April 29, 1917, Kiev – October 13, 1961, New York City) born Eleanora Derenkowsky, was an James Broughton ( November 10 1913, Modesto, California, USA &ndash May 17, 1999, Port Townsend Kenneth Anger (born February 3, 1927) is an American underground avant-garde film-maker Sidney Peterson ( November 15, 1905, Oakland California - April 24, 2000, New York City Bruce Conner ( November 18 1933 - July 7 2008) was an American Artist renowned for his work in film, drawing Carmen D'Avino (1918–2004 was a pioneer in animated short film In 1963, together with Richard Roud, he founded the New York Film Festival, and served as its program director until 1968. Richard Roud ( July 6 1929 – February 13 1989) was co-founder with Amos Vogel and former director of the the New York Film Festival The New York Film Festival is the one of the most important film festivals in the United States first held in 1963 in New York. In 1973, Vogel started the Annenberg Cinematheque at the University of Pennsylvania and was eventually given a Chair for film studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, where he taught and lectured for two decades. The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn) is a private University located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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. Antisemitism (alternatively spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism; also rarely known as judeophobia) is the Prejudice against or hostility
Vogel participated in the 2003 documentary In the Mirror of Maya Deren by Martina Kudlácek. Maya Deren ( April 29, 1917, Kiev – October 13, 1961, New York City) born Eleanora Derenkowsky, was an
Work
Film as a Subversive Art, 1974
Films about Vogel
Film as a Subversive Art: Amos Vogel and Cinema 16, Paul Cronin, UK, 2003; 56m
External links
- Film as a Subversive Art: Amos Vogel and Cinema 16 documentary
- Amos Vogel biography
- Censoring Cuba
- The Subversive Nub
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