Amos Vogel – 100 Years of Subversion

With his provocative assertion of film as a "subversive art," the curator, critic and indefatigable educator Amos Vogel (1921–2012) violently challenged the common understanding of film, championing a cinematic cosmos rich with disapproved, forgotten, defiant and censored works. In 2021, this figurehead of curatorial rebelliousness would have celebrated his centenary. This is why we declared 2021 to be the year of Amos Vogel and in memory of the major protagonist of curatorial contradictions, again challenged conventional views of what film and cinema are under the motto of "100 Years of Subversion." We advocated an audiovisual cosmos full of frowned upon, forgotten, unruly, and censured images, films, videos, audio clips, texts, essays, and thoughts and opened an exhibition in our "peep show" lobby gallery that visually translated the motto of the centenary: "Seeing films is a way of thinking."
 
Report about our Amos Vogel projects (PDF)
 

Activities and Projects at the Austrian Film Museum

 

The Song of Ceylon, 1934, Basil Wright
Since 2018 / Ongoing

ATLAS FILM PROGRAMS

Hommage to Cinema 16:
Films you cannot see elsewhere
Pin Buttons
Since 2021 / Ongoing

OBJECTS

Discoveries from the Amos Vogel Library
Amos Vogel: Seeing Films is a Way of Thinking
Since 2021 / Ongoing

SELFIES & QUOTES

Birthday wishes for Amos Vogel
Amos Vogel Visitenkarte
Since 2021 / Ongoing

CASE STUDIES

Reading material, comments and discoveries
06_mubi.com.jpg
Since 2021 / Ongoing

AMOS VOGEL LECTURES

Talks, meetings and seminars
Resonanz von Exil, Ausstellungsansicht, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, 2018 © Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Foto: Rainer Iglar
Since 2019 / Ongoing

AMOS VOGEL LIBRARY

Books, pamphlets and juvenilia
Peep Show #2 - Amos Vogel - Gesamtansicht
January 2021 to February 2022

PEEP SHOW

Exhibition: Seeing films is a way of thinking
2014

PUBLICATION

Be Sand Not Oil. The Life and Work of Amos Vogel
T-Shirt Sonderedition Amos Vogel (Foto: ÖFM / © Eszter Kondor)
LIMITED EDITION

T-SHIRTS "AMOS VOGEL"

A special limited edition T-shirt on the occasion of Vogel's 100th birthday
Laborat, 2014, Guillaume Cailleau
October 22 to November 25, 2021

FILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART '21

A Tribute to Amos Vogel
 
Amos Vogel. Mosaik im Vertrauen, 2001, Egon Humer
2011

VOGEL's 90TH BIRTHDAY

Film as a Subversive Art:
An Evening for Amos Vogel

WR: Mysterien des Organismus, 1971, Dusan Makavejev
2008

FILM AGAINST TABOOS

Retrospective: Cinema and the "Sexual Liberation," 1963–1976
Ausschnitt einer Karikatur von Bill Littlejohn, angefertigt während der Schlussdiskussion des Symposiums: in der Mitte Amos Vogel (Schriftgutsammlung ÖFM)
1993

VIENNALE RETROSPECTIVE

Departure into Uncertainty – Austrian Filmmakers in Emigration

Amos Vogel Projects by Friends

 

NEW YORK CITYWIDE CELEBRATION
OF AMOS VOGEL

 
September 24 to October 10, 2021
Spotlight: Amos Vogel Centenary Retrospective
New York Film Festival 59

October 8 to 13, 2021
Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral? The Subversive Art of Amos Vogel
Musem of Modern Art

October 13 to 20, 2021
Amos Vogel's Film as a Subversive Art
Metrograph
 
October 14 to 17, 2021
Roxy Cinema Tribeca

October 19, 2021
The Visual Taboo
Light Industry

October 21 to 27, 2021
Amos Vogel Centenary: Cinema 16
Anthology Film Archives
 
November 7, 2021
Homage to Amos Vogel and Cinema 16
Film Forum

October 29 to 31, 2021
Amos Vogel Centenary: "Reality" as a Subversive Art
Museum of the Moving Image

BOOK
The new edition of "Film As a Subversive Art" by Amos Vogel
Film Desk Books | Shop
 
September 2021

AMOS VOGEL – REPEATS AND RESPONSES

Tribute at Arsenal, Berlin

March 2021

PUNTO DE VISTA

Film Festival: Amos Vogel Retrospective
September 2018

RESONANCE OF EXILE

Exhibition at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg
October 2004

TRIBUTE TO AMOS VOGEL

Life as Subversive Art, Viennale 2004
2011

BOOK

Amos Vogel – Ein New Yorker Cineast aus Wien
Sticking Place

AMOS VOGEL

Film as a Subversive Art and Cinema 16
 
Columbia University

ARCHIVAL COLLECTION

The Amos Vogel Papers at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Harvard Film Archive

COLLECTION

Amos Vogel Annenberg
School for Communication
University of Pennsylvania

ANNENBERG SCHOOL

for Communication. Amos Vogel
as former Faculty Member