Cinema 16
Cinema 16 was a New York City–based film society founded by Amos Vogel. From 1947-63, he and his wife, Marcia, ran the most successful and influential membership film society in North American history, at its height boasting 7000 members.[1]
History
Vogel was inspired by Maya Deren's independent exhibitions.[2] Deren exhibited and presented lectures on her films across the United States, Cuba and Canada. In 1946, she booked the Provincetown Playhouse in Greenwich Village for a public exhibition titled Three Abandoned Films, which consisted of showings of Meshes of the Afternoon, At Land, and A Study in Choreography for the Camera. Deren took the word "abandoned" to refer to Paul Valéry's observation that a work of art is never completed, just abandoned. While the title was ironic, the exhibition was successful.[citation needed]
Cinema 16 closed in 1963, after 17 years in operation. In that year Amos went on to programme the New York Film Festival. Grove Press acquired Cinema 16 in 1966.[3]
Programming
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The movies shown at Cinema 16 consisted mostly of the experimental film that began flourishing after World War II, as well as nonfiction films – not only documentaries, but educational films as well. In that, it differed even from the narrative-oriented art cinemas that appeared in the postwar years.
Filmmakers exhibited
- Jonas Mekas
- Maya Deren
- Gregory Markopoulos
- Ron Peterson
- Carmen D'Avino (one of his films, the 1963 Oscar-nominated animated short Pianissimo, was distributed by Cinema 16)[4][5][6]
- Stan Brakhage[7]
- Shirley Clarke[8]
- Bruce Conner[9]
- Joseph Cornell[10]
- Brian De Palma[11]
- Georges Franju[12]
- Richard Lester[13]
- Nagisa Oshima[14]
- Yasujiro Ozu[15]
- Roman Polanski[16]
- Alain Resnais[17]
- Jacques Rivette[18]
- Carlos Saura[19]
- François Truffaut[20]
- Agnès Varda[21]
- John Cassavetes[22]
References
- ^ The Limits of American Cinephilia, NewYorker.com. Accessed November 10, 2022.
- ^ Deren, Maya, sensesofcinema. Accessed November 10, 2022.
- ^ "Grove Press Records an inventory of its records at Syracuse University". Retrieved November 10, 2022.
- ^ "Cartoons Considered For the Academy Award – 1963 -". cartoonresearch.com.
- ^ Shirley MacLaine presents Short Film Oscars® in 1964
- ^ 1964|Oscars.org
- ^ Amos Vogel, Founder of the New York Film Festival and Cinema 16, Dies at 91|IndieWire
- ^ Amos Vogel, Founder of the New York Film Festival and Cinema 16, Dies at 91|IndieWire
- ^ Amos Vogel, Founder of the New York Film Festival and Cinema 16, Dies at 91|IndieWire
- ^ Amos Vogel, Founder of the New York Film Festival and Cinema 16, Dies at 91|IndieWire
- ^ Amos Vogel, Founder of the New York Film Festival and Cinema 16, Dies at 91|IndieWire
- ^ Amos Vogel, Founder of the New York Film Festival and Cinema 16, Dies at 91|IndieWire
- ^ Amos Vogel, Founder of the New York Film Festival and Cinema 16, Dies at 91|IndieWire
- ^ Amos Vogel, Founder of the New York Film Festival and Cinema 16, Dies at 91|IndieWire
- ^ Amos Vogel, Founder of the New York Film Festival and Cinema 16, Dies at 91|IndieWire
- ^ Amos Vogel, Founder of the New York Film Festival and Cinema 16, Dies at 91|IndieWire
- ^ Amos Vogel, Founder of the New York Film Festival and Cinema 16, Dies at 91|IndieWire
- ^ Amos Vogel, Founder of the New York Film Festival and Cinema 16, Dies at 91|IndieWire
- ^ Amos Vogel, Founder of the New York Film Festival and Cinema 16, Dies at 91|IndieWire
- ^ Amos Vogel, Founder of the New York Film Festival and Cinema 16, Dies at 91|IndieWire
- ^ Amos Vogel, Founder of the New York Film Festival and Cinema 16, Dies at 91|IndieWire
- ^ Amos Vogel, Founder of the New York Film Festival and Cinema 16, Dies at 91|IndieWire
Further reading
- MacDonald, Scott (2002). Cinema 16: Documents Toward a History of the Film Society. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. ISBN 1-56639-924-6.