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Amos Vogel (born Amos Vogelbaum; April 18, 1921 – April 24, 2012) was a New York City cineaste.
Vogel was born in Vienna, Austria. He fled Austria with his parents after the Nazi Anschluß in 1938 and at first studied animal husbandry at the University of Georgia. In the American South, he noted, the racism was as bad as the anti-semitism he witnessed in Europe. Later he received a bachelor's degree from The New School for Social Research in New York.
He is best known for his bestselling book Film as a Subversive Art (1974) 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. In 1963, together with Richard Roud, he founded the New York Film Festival, and served as its program director until 1968. 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. Vogel also wrote a book for children, How Little Lori Visited Times Square, published in 1963 with illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Vogel participated in the documentary In the Mirror of Maya Deren (2003) by Martina Kudlácek.
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Amos Vogel's talk "Film as Art" 7 November 1980 Port Washington Public Library www.amosvogel.com Amos Vogel was born on 18 April 1921, in Vienna, Austria, to intellectual left-wing middle-class Jewish parents. In the fall of 1938, six months after the Nazis had annexed the country, Vogel and his parents left Austria for the United States. In preparation for his planned move to Palestine, he accepted a scholarship in agricultural training from the National Youth Administration and took classes at the University of Georgia in agricultural sciences. After deciding to remain in America, Vogel took a degree in economics from the New School for Social Research in New York. From 1947 until 1963, he and his wife Marcia ran Cinema 16, the most successful and influential membership film society i...
A scene from the documentary "Film as a Subversive Art: Amos Vogel and Cinema 16" in which Amos tell us why many people does not like surreal, experimental, avantgarde, unusual films http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Vogel
Amos Vogel and Film as a Subversive Art Remembered: L'Age d'Or (The Age of Gold) By Luis Buñuel Thu, Sep 6 • 7:30 pm & Sun, Sep 9 • 2 pm Screening Room Admission per screening: $10 regular/ $8 YBCA Member, senior, student, teacher FREE for YBCA:You Founder of the legendary Cinema 16 film society as well as the New York Film Festival, Amos Vogel died at the age of 91 in April. He is best remembered by some for his seminal book Film as a Subversive Art. This amazing text illustrated the power of cinema to challenge aesthetic, political, sexual, and ideological ideas. In tribute, we present Luis Buñuel's rarely screened classic L'Age d'Or, co-written by Salvador Dali. Vogel wrote this about the film: "In accord with surrealist ideology, only love—wild, anarchic, irrational love—is acceptable...
www.amosvogel.com Amos Vogel was born on 18 April 1921, in Vienna, Austria, to intellectual left-wing middle-class Jewish parents. In the fall of 1938, six months after the Nazis had annexed the country, Vogel and his parents left Austria for the United States. In preparation for his planned move to Palestine, he accepted a scholarship in agricultural training from the National Youth Administration and took classes at the University of Georgia in agricultural sciences. After deciding to remain in America, Vogel took a degree in economics from the New School for Social Research in New York. From 1947 until 1963, he and his wife Marcia ran Cinema 16, the most successful and influential membership film society in North American history, at its height boasting seven thousand members. Cinema ...
www.amosvogel.com Amos Vogel was born on 18 April 1921, in Vienna, Austria, to intellectual left-wing middle-class Jewish parents. In the fall of 1938, six months after the Nazis had annexed the country, Vogel and his parents left Austria for the United States. In preparation for his planned move to Palestine, he accepted a scholarship in agricultural training from the National Youth Administration and took classes at the University of Georgia in agricultural sciences. After deciding to remain in America, Vogel took a degree in economics from the New School for Social Research in New York. From 1947 until 1963, he and his wife Marcia ran Cinema 16, the most successful and influential membership film society in North American history, at its height boasting seven thousand members. Cinema ...
Interviewer: John Collier www.amosvogel.com Amos Vogel was born on 18 April 1921, in Vienna, Austria, to intellectual left-wing middle-class Jewish parents. In the fall of 1938, six months after the Nazis had annexed the country, Vogel and his parents left Austria for the United States. In preparation for his planned move to Palestine, he accepted a scholarship in agricultural training from the National Youth Administration and took classes at the University of Georgia in agricultural sciences. After deciding to remain in America, Vogel took a degree in economics from the New School for Social Research in New York. From 1947 until 1963, he and his wife Marcia ran Cinema 16, the most successful and influential membership film society in North American history, at its height boasting seve...
NBC Interviewer: Pauline Frederick www.amosvogel.com Amos Vogel was born on 18 April 1921, in Vienna, Austria, to intellectual left-wing middle-class Jewish parents. In the fall of 1938, six months after the Nazis had annexed the country, Vogel and his parents left Austria for the United States. In preparation for his planned move to Palestine, he accepted a scholarship in agricultural training from the National Youth Administration and took classes at the University of Georgia in agricultural sciences. After deciding to remain in America, Vogel took a degree in economics from the New School for Social Research in New York. From 1947 until 1963, he and his wife Marcia ran Cinema 16, the most successful and influential membership film society in North American history, at its height boas...
www.amosvogel.com Amos Vogel was born on 18 April 1921, in Vienna, Austria, to intellectual left-wing middle-class Jewish parents. In the fall of 1938, six months after the Nazis had annexed the country, Vogel and his parents left Austria for the United States. In preparation for his planned move to Palestine, he accepted a scholarship in agricultural training from the National Youth Administration and took classes at the University of Georgia in agricultural sciences. After deciding to remain in America, Vogel took a degree in economics from the New School for Social Research in New York. From 1947 until 1963, he and his wife Marcia ran Cinema 16, the most successful and influential membership film society in North American history, at its height boasting seven thousand members. Cinema ...
WOR Radio Interviewer: John Wingate www.amosvogel.com Amos Vogel was born on 18 April 1921, in Vienna, Austria, to intellectual left-wing middle-class Jewish parents. In the fall of 1938, six months after the Nazis had annexed the country, Vogel and his parents left Austria for the United States. In preparation for his planned move to Palestine, he accepted a scholarship in agricultural training from the National Youth Administration and took classes at the University of Georgia in agricultural sciences. After deciding to remain in America, Vogel took a degree in economics from the New School for Social Research in New York. From 1947 until 1963, he and his wife Marcia ran Cinema 16, the most successful and influential membership film society in North American history, at its height boa...