A fascinating profile of Amos Vogel, an 82-year old New York resident, a Jewish émigré from Austria and founder of the New York Film Festival. In 1947, Vogel established Cinema 16, a pioneering film club aimed at audiences thirsty for work that could not be seen elsewhere. Through Cinema 16 and the NYFF, which he founded in 1967, Vogel was the first to introduce American audiences to the works of Roman Polanski, John Cassavetes and Paul Kluge as well as educational, scientific and experimental films – among them the first American screening of the Nazi propaganda film The Eternal Jew. Film As Subversive Art is a fitting tribute to one of the earliest advocates in America for foreign, independent and avant-garde film.

Co-sponsored by The National Gallery of Art

Invited Guests: Amos and Marcia Vogel