Films You Cannot See Elsewhere
The Amos Vogel Atlas 22
Cinédoc
September 17 and 18, 2025
The Paris Films Coop, formed in France in 1974 as a cooperative of independent experimental filmmakers with the goal of disseminating their works widely. Through connections with the Experimental University of Vincennes, the magazine Melba and ciné-MBXA, the Coop later went on to become Cinédoc. For the past five decades, the Cinédoc Paris Films Coop association has been fervently preserving, distributing and promoting avant-garde and experimental cinema.
On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, Cinédoc presents a selection of French films from the Paris Films Coop's formative years – innovative and surprising works that marked the renaissance of experimental French cinema during the 1970s. Three short film programs invite you to rediscover the singular, diverse, and radical aesthetics of a group of filmmakers, working closely with cinematographic materiality and perception, experiencing an inventive jouissance-cinéma freed from narrative-representational-industrial (NRI) settings, as described by Claudine Eizykman in her seminal 1975 book of the same name.
Federico Rossin: "To put these films back into circulation today, in a program designed to make them resonate in and against the current imagination, is to flood our present with joy: the indocile joy of a generation of very young artists who sought to attack the cinema of their contemporaries head-on, destroy that of their fathers, and thus rediscover the purity and radicality of that of their grandfathers, the sacred monsters of the 1920s avant-garde. A program that shows not just a utopia made real, but the reality of an artistic practice and a way of life that actually existed." (Bárbara Janicas, Beatriz Rodovalho, Dominique Willoughby)
Amos Vogel (1921–2012), an Austrian-born Jew, became one of the most important figures in international film culture after his emigration to the United States. The Amos Vogel Atlas is a series dedicated continuing Vogel's oppositional legacy alongside the study of his literary estate, which is deposited in the Film Museum.
The Paris Films Coop, formed in France in 1974 as a cooperative of independent experimental filmmakers with the goal of disseminating their works widely. Through connections with the Experimental University of Vincennes, the magazine Melba and ciné-MBXA, the Coop later went on to become Cinédoc. For the past five decades, the Cinédoc Paris Films Coop association has been fervently preserving, distributing and promoting avant-garde and experimental cinema.
On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, Cinédoc presents a selection of French films from the Paris Films Coop's formative years – innovative and surprising works that marked the renaissance of experimental French cinema during the 1970s. Three short film programs invite you to rediscover the singular, diverse, and radical aesthetics of a group of filmmakers, working closely with cinematographic materiality and perception, experiencing an inventive jouissance-cinéma freed from narrative-representational-industrial (NRI) settings, as described by Claudine Eizykman in her seminal 1975 book of the same name.
Federico Rossin: "To put these films back into circulation today, in a program designed to make them resonate in and against the current imagination, is to flood our present with joy: the indocile joy of a generation of very young artists who sought to attack the cinema of their contemporaries head-on, destroy that of their fathers, and thus rediscover the purity and radicality of that of their grandfathers, the sacred monsters of the 1920s avant-garde. A program that shows not just a utopia made real, but the reality of an artistic practice and a way of life that actually existed." (Bárbara Janicas, Beatriz Rodovalho, Dominique Willoughby)
Amos Vogel (1921–2012), an Austrian-born Jew, became one of the most important figures in international film culture after his emigration to the United States. The Amos Vogel Atlas is a series dedicated continuing Vogel's oppositional legacy alongside the study of his literary estate, which is deposited in the Film Museum.
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Project Amos Vogel – 100 Years of Subversion
Film Series Amos Vogel Atlas
Link Amos Vogel Library
Link Cinédoc
Project Amos Vogel – 100 Years of Subversion
Film Series Amos Vogel Atlas