Vogelbaum

“To ques­tion what exists and to rad­i­cally trans­form it remain our most com­pelling imperatives.“ Amos Vogel, 1984

Amos Vogel (1922–2012) was the founder of Cinema 16 and New York Film Festival. An Austrian Jewish immigrant, Vogelbaum, as he was called when still in Austria, dedicated his life to supporting the pioneering efforts of independent artists and aesthetic rebels. A film is subjective creativity and so is its reception - whether a film is different or popular, what one might call awful or beautiful,  ...