Film As A Subversive Art   

Director: Paul Cronin
Running Time: 57 minutes     
UK 2003

Post Screening Discussion with Director


In 1947, Amos Vogel established a film club in New York called Cinema 16, the most important and influential film society in American history.

At its height it boasted thousands of members, inspired a nationwide network of smaller film societies, and gave birth to the very rich tradition of post-war film culture that still exists in the United States.  The film is a profile of Vogel, who later founded the New York Film Festival.

It tells his story through a vivid compilation of images and sounds including photographs and beautifully designed catalogues and leaflets from Vogel’s extensive Cinema 16 archive and excerpts from a selection of films screened at Cinema 16 including Roman Polanski’s ‘Two Men And A Wardrobe’ and the only film made by legendary New York press photographer, Weegee.

Screening:

25 October 7.30 p.m. Modern Art Oxford