Documentary by Amos Vogel at the Film Museum

Film as a Subversive Art: Amos Vogel and Cinema 16Aus the town hall look around on 14.05.2012:
"In memory of Amos Vogel, the American film scholars, publicists and film maker, who on 24 April with 91 years in New York has died, the film museum in Munich City Museum, 17th St.-Jakobs-Platz 1, on Thursday, May, by 19 clock in the series "Open Scene" documentary "Film as a Subversive Art: Amos Vogel and Cinema 16" (USA 2004, 56 minutes, original version) by Paul Cronin, and a program of short experimental films. Vogel, who in 1921 arrived in Vienna as Amos Vogel tree to the world and in 1938 fled from the Nazis in the United States was a central figure of the New York theaters. In 1947 he was the influential film club "Cinema 16" was launched and conducted jointly with his wife Marcia and 1963.
Together with Richard Roud, he then founded the New York Film Festival, for his program, he was responsible until 1968. Bird was always a representative of independent and avant-garde cinema, later film stars like Roman Polanski, John Cassavetes, Jacques Rivette and Alain Resnais made acceptable in the U.S. and gave experimental filmmakers like Kenneth Anger, Bruce Conner and Sidney Peterson a platform. World-renowned bird did not last its unconventional compendium "Film as a Subversive Art" (1974), which was directed against "homogenization and infantilization" of the culture industry.
The program:- "Film as a Subversive Art: Amos Vogel and Cinema 16" (USA 2004, 56 minutes, original version), directed by Paul Cronin- "Begone Dull Care" (Canada 1949, eight minutes), directed by Norman McLaren- "At Land" (USA 1944, 15 minutes) Director: Maya Deren- "An Avant-Garde Home Movie" (USA 1961, four minutes), directed by Stan Brakhage- "Looking for Mushrooms" (USA 1967/1996, 14 minutes), directed by Bruce Conner- "Le Merle" (Canada 1958, four minutes), directed by Norman McLaren.