Amos Vogel Library

Amos Vogel (1921–2012) was one of the most important personalities of American film culture. Born in Vienna, Austria and forced into exile as a Jew in 1938 he later became the founder and curator of Cinema 16 (1947–1963), the largest film club in the U.S.A. focusing on independent cinema; founding director of the New York Film Festival (1963–1968) focusing on contemporary avant-garde; and the author of the influential volume Film as a Subversive Art (1974); professor of film studies at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania; lecturer, critic, and consultant at numerous international film festivals.
In 2013 Amos Vogel's personal library was returned to Vienna, the birthplace of its founder, by his sons. Now, the Austrian Film Museum is pleased to make the Amos Vogel Library accessible to the public, thus providing new insights into the ways of thinking and working of this significant and subversive pioneer of film culture.

Elisabeth Streit, Tom Waibel