Amos Vogel's passing is hitting me hard. He was a significant cultural force, and presence in my life. I was his TA at Penn's Annenberg School from '75-77, and worked with him on a collection of Cinema 16 program notes and materials that we distributed to ten film archives around the world. I was in between wanting to be an experimental filmmaker and a film scholar, and being exposed to Amos and Cinema 16 pointed a Third Way I've been trying to follow ever since becoming a creative programmer who collages films in original and illuminating programs or series. The mix of experimental, educational, documentary, animation, etc., in his programs was amazing. Amos became my role model as a programmer and as an evangelical promoter of filmmakers he believed in. Amos was the first to present Cassavetes, Kluge, Ozu, Rivette (the list goes on and on).and to both show and distribute Anger, Peterson, Broughton and many other experimental filmmakers.
Our very limited edition of Cinema 16 materials is hard to find (I did see it in the MOMA Film Study Center a few years ago), but an even better source of information is Scott MacDonald's Temple University Press book CINEMA 16: Documents Toward a History of the Film Society. There's also Paul Cronin's nice film FILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART: Amos Vogel and Cinema 16. Here's Cronin's extensive page of information about Amos: http://www.thestickingplace.com/film/films/film-as-a-subversive-art/introduc tion/, which includes a link to the complete film. Best, Richard Herskowitz Artistic Director, Houston Cinema Arts Festival http://cinemartsociety.org Director, Cinema Pacific http://cinemapacific.uoregon.edu From: Scott MacDonald <sc...@financialcleansing.com> Reply-To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com> Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 1:01 PM To: Mark Toscano <fiddy...@yahoo.com>, Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Amos Vogel 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 > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [Frameworks] Amos Vogel > From: Mark Toscano <fiddy...@yahoo.com> > Date: Tue, April 24, 2012 12:41 pm > To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com> > > Hi - > > Been hearing that Amos Vogel died today. Can anyone confirm, or does anyone > have additional info? > > Mark Toscano > > > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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