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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    Aguaespejo granadino

    1955 — a.k.a. Water-Mirror of Granada, in 4 top lists Check
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    London to Brighton in Four Minutes

    1952, in 1 top list Check
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    Short Subject

    1969 — a.k.a. Mickey Mouse in Vietnam, in 1 top list Check
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    Eika Katappa

    1969, in 1 top list Check
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    God is Dog Spelled Backwards

    1967, in 1 top list Check
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    Akran

    1969, in 1 top list Check
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    The Queen

    1968, in 1 top list Check
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    Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die...

    1971 — a.k.a. It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives, in 1 top list Check
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    Memorandum

    1966, in 1 top list Check
  10. 394 -236

    Echoes of Silence

    1965, in 1 top list Check
  11. 170 +379

    UFO's

    1972, in 1 top list Check
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    Bells of Atlantis

    1952, in 2 top lists Check
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    Warszawa 1956

    1956, in 1 top list Check
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    Black TV

    1968, in 2 top lists Check
  15. 110 +37

    Don Giovanni

    1970, in 1 top list Check
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    Maria-Empfängnis-Aktion Hermann Nitsch

    1969, in 1 top list Check
  17. 188 -107

    The Brig

    1964, in 1 top list Check
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    Kirsa Nicholina

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  19. 435 -365

    La fée sanguinaire

    1969, in 1 top list Check
  20. 302 +126

    Prata Palomares

    1972, in 1 top list Check
  21. 47 +109

    Spiste horisonter

    1950 — a.k.a. Eaten Horizonts, in 1 top list Check
  22. 377 -148

    Studie II: Hallucinationer

    1952, in 1 top list Check
  23. 254 +160

    Idu Dani

    1969 — a.k.a. Passing Days, in 1 top list Check
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    L'imitation du cinéma

    1960, in 1 top list Check
  25. 54 +277

    Magritte ou La leçon de choses

    1960, in 1 top list Check
  26. 149 +247

    Olympiad

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  27. 126 +345

    Running Shadow

    1972, in 1 top list Check
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    Postchi

    1972 — a.k.a. The Postman, in 1 top list Check
  29. 416 +16

    Psychomontage

    1963, in 1 top list Check
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    Sunday

    1961, in 1 top list Check
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    Unfolding

    1970, in 1 top list Check
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    Brazil: A Report on Torture

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  33. 41 +272

    The Liberation of the Mannique Mechanique

    1967, in 1 top list Check
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    Otmar Bauer Zeigt

    1969 — a.k.a. Vomit-Action, in 1 top list Check
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    Red Squad

    1972, in 1 top list Check
  36. 48 +109

    Tabeta hito

    1963, in 1 top list Check
  37. 466 -196

    Unverschamtheit im Grunewald

    1969, in 1 top list Check
  38. 130 -25

    Color Film

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  39. 114 +444

    Verifica incerta - Disperse Exclamatory Phase

    1965, in 2 top lists Check
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    Voyage en Boscavie

    1958, in 1 top list Check
  41. 4 +84

    Canyon

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  42. 485 -317

    The End of One

    1973, in 1 top list Check
  43. 100 +327

    Kieran's Kaleidoscope: Power of Plants

    1949, in 1 top list Check
  44. 307 +117

    Piloten im Pyjama

    1968 — a.k.a. Pilots in Pajamas, in 1 top list Check
  45. 166 +279

    Razor Blades

    1968, in 1 top list Check
  46. 430 -184

    Holding

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  47. 133 +238

    Naissant

    1964, in 1 top list Check
  48. 536 -156

    A Note from Above

    1969, in 1 top list Check
  49. 227 +303

    Three Lives

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  50. 34 +55

    Capricci

    1969, in 1 top list Check
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