Amos Vogel's Film as a Subversive Art

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"Film as a Subversive Art was first published in 1974. According to Vogel--founder of Cinema 16, North America's legendary film society--the book details the "accelerating worldwide trend toward a more liberated cinema, in which subjects and forms hitherto considered unthinkable or forbidden are boldly explored." So ahead of his time was Vogel that the ideas that he penned some 30 years ago are still relevant today, and readily accessible in this classic volume. Accompanied by over 300 rare film stills, Film as a Subversive Art analyzes how aesthetic, sexual, and ideological subversives use one of the most powerful art forms of our day to exchange or manipulate our conscious and unconscious, demystify visual taboos, destroy dated cinematic forms, and undermine existing value systems and institutions."

This list contains all movies in the revised version from 2021.

Included in this list are movies:
1. with dedicated texts.
2. shown in movie stills.
3. mentioned otherwise as an example of subversive cinema in the context of the text it is mentioned in.

Excluded from this list are movies that are mentioned in any other way than an example of subversive cinema.

The movies are sorted by appearance in the book. Some movies appear multiple times. In that case, the preferred position is the dedicated text, then a movie still and lastly a mention.

The book is divided into parts:
Introduction (#1 - #20)
Part 1 - Weapons of Subversion: The Subversion of Form (#21 - #170)
Part 2 - Weapons of Subversion: The Subversion of Content (#171 - #355)
Part 3 - Weapons of Subversion: Forbidden Subjects of the Cinema (#356 - #572)
Part 4 - Towards a New Consciousness (#573 - #598)
#599 is the back cover.

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    6/64: Mama und Papa (Materialaktion Otto Mühl)

    1964, in 1 top list Check
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    79 primaveras

    1969, in 5 top lists Check
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    8 Flags for 99¢

    1970, in 1 top list Check
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    Acerca de un personaje que unos llaman San...

    1968, in 1 top list Check
  5. 479 -472

    The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes

    1971, in 9 top lists Check
  6. 51 +172

    Aguaespejo granadino

    1955 — a.k.a. Water-Mirror of Granada, in 4 top lists Check
  7. 85 -74

    Aktion 540

    1968, in 1 top list Check
  8. 573 -557

    Allures

    1961, in 4 top lists Check
  9. 552 -365

    Anastenaria

    1959, in 1 top list Check
  10. 62 -39

    Anémic cinéma

    1926, in 3 top lists Check
  11. 105 -80

    Anticipation of the Night

    1958, in 4 top lists Check
  12. 43 -16

    Aos

    1964, in 1 top list Check
  13. 574 -545

    Apotheosis

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  14. 529 -497

    Archandel Gabriel a paní Husa

    1965, in 1 top list Check
  15. 506 -475

    Archeologia

    1968 — a.k.a. Archaeology, in 1 top list Check
  16. 165 -132

    Arnulf Rainer

    1960, in 4 top lists Check
  17. 480 -444

    The Atom Strikes!

    1945, in 1 top list Check
  18. 143 -104

    Ballet mécanique

    1924, in 7 top lists Check
  19. 322 -277

    Beauty Knows No Pain

    1972, in 1 top list Check
  20. 378 -331

    The Bed

    1968, in 2 top lists Check
  21. 142 -91

    Bells of Atlantis

    1952, in 2 top lists Check
  22. 462 -50

    Besonders wertvoll

    1968, in 1 top list Check
  23. 146 -93

    Between Two Worlds

    1952, in 1 top list Check
  24. 264 +287

    Bez Naslova

    1964 — a.k.a. Without Title, in 1 top list Check
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    The Big Shave

    1967, in 3 top lists Check
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    Bitter Grapes

    1968, in 1 top list Check
  27. 65 -4

    Black and White Burlesque

    1960, in 1 top list Check
  28. 173 -111

    Black Panthers

    1968, in 2 top lists Check
  29. 392 -329

    Black Pudding

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  30. 153 -89

    Black TV

    1968, in 2 top lists Check
  31. 152 -87

    Blazes

    1961, in 2 top lists Check
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    Blow Job

    1963, in 6 top lists Check
  33. 3 +72

    Blue Moses

    1962, in 2 top lists Check
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    Bylem kapo

    1963, in 1 top list Check
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    Byt

    1968 — a.k.a. The Flat, in 1 top list Check
  36. 49 +37

    Le cadeau

    1961 — a.k.a. The Present, in 1 top list Check
  37. 4 +84

    Canyon

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  38. 582 -402

    Changing

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  39. 437 -343

    Un chant d'amour

    1950 — a.k.a. A Song of Love, in 7 top lists Check
  40. 87 +9

    Chinese Firedrill

    1968, in 2 top lists Check
  41. 50 +50

    La cloche

    1964, in 1 top list Check
  42. 579 -475

    Co-Co Puffs

    1972, in 1 top list Check
  43. 130 -25

    Color Film

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  44. 486 -286

    Corrida interdite

    1959, in 1 top list Check
  45. 69 +41

    Cosmic Ray

    1962, in 3 top lists Check
  46. 174 -59

    The Cry of Jazz

    1959, in 2 top lists Check
  47. 288 -171

    Culebra

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  48. 439 -287

    Cybele

    1968, in 1 top list Check
  49. 154 -34

    Damon the Mower

    1972, in 2 top lists Check
  50. 333 -183

    De Düva: The Dove

    1968, in 1 top list Check
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