Yes, Mark,
Amos Vogel, one of the pioneers in building an infrastructure and an audience for independent cinema and independent film programming in America, died yesterday at home. He was 91.
Vogel, with his wife and partner Marcia, created Cinema 16, the breakthrough and immensely successful New York film society, in 1947; and Vogel ran Cinema 16, becoming not only an exhibitor but an early distributor of experimental film, until 1963. Subsequently, Vogel and Richard Roud created the New York Film Festival. Vogel's image-text book, Film As a Subversive Art, published in 1974 was crucial for many of us. Vogel was also a teacher of film history, first at the New School in New York and later at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
Vogel was born in Vienna, and emigrated to the United States in 1938 after the the Nazis annexed Austria.
Amos was a lovely person, and a passionate cineaste with a broad range of interests. His health had failed in recent years.
Scott
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