Film As Subversive Art: Amos Vogel And Cinema 16 (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #3 extract: Film As Subversive Art: Amos Vogel And Cinema 16 (2004)

A, by and large, not very well made documentary that has a lot of character and a great subject, Film As Subversive Art briefly explores a significant organisation in American film history: Cinema 16. Run by Amos Vogel this was a groundbreaking cinema club that showed avant-garde, experimental, scientific and surreal films/documentaries (amongst a plethora of others). Not only did this put into the public eye great works of art, but it rebelled against the censors from the late 40s to the late 60s and redefined what film is and could do for many people when no one, or anything, else would - a notion and concept that easily goes over our heads in the modern age. 

For anyone interested in experimental films and cinematic history, definitely give this one a go.