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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    Acupuncture Anaesthesia

    1972, in 1 top list
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    Dead Movie

    1964, in 1 top list Check
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    Hog Calling Blues

    1969, in 1 top list Check
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    In the Clutches of the Gang

    1914, in 1 top list Check
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    The Man from Onan

    1971, in 1 top list Check
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    Posledni Veci Cloveka

    1967, in 1 top list
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    The Race

    1972, in 1 top list
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    L'arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat

    1896 — a.k.a. The Arrival of a Train, in 13 top lists Check
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    Ljubite se, ne ratujte

    1971 — a.k.a. Make Love, Not War, in 1 top list Check
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    Per Aspera Ad Astra

    1969, 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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    Color Film

    1971, in 1 top list Check
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    The Great Society

    1967, in 1 top list Check
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    A Note from Above

    1969, in 1 top list Check
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    Bez Naslova

    1964 — a.k.a. Without Title, in 1 top list Check
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    Black and White Burlesque

    1960, in 1 top list Check
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    Blazes

    1961, in 2 top lists Check
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    Damon the Mower

    1972, in 2 top lists Check
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    Dinner

    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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    Koekoekswals

    1955 — a.k.a. Cuckoo Waltz, in 1 top list Check
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    Loops

    1940, in 1 top list Check
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    A Man and His Dog Out for Air

    1960, in 1 top list Check
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    Orange

    1970, in 1 top list Check
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    Rhythmus 21

    1923, in 3 top lists Check
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    UFO's

    1972, in 1 top list Check
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    6/64: Mama und Papa (Materialaktion Otto Mühl)

    1964, in 1 top list Check
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    Cosmic Ray

    1962, in 3 top lists Check
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    Im Schönsten Wiesengrunde

    1969 — a.k.a. On a Most Beautiful Meadow, in 1 top list Check
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    Lightning, Waterfall, Fern, Soup

    1969, in 1 top list Check
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    London to Brighton in Four Minutes

    1952, in 1 top list Check
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    Love

    1964, in 1 top list Check
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    Mothlight

    1963, in 6 top lists Check
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    Olympiad

    1971, in 1 top list Check
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    Spiste horisonter

    1950 — a.k.a. Eaten Horizonts, in 1 top list Check
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    Zid

    1966 — a.k.a. The Wall, in 2 top lists Check
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    Fingerübung

    1968, in 1 top list Check
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    Fotel

    1964, in 1 top list Check
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    Free Radicals

    1958, in 7 top lists Check
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    Institutional Quality

    1969, in 2 top lists Check
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    A La Mode

    1959, in 1 top list Check
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    Now

    1965, in 5 top lists Check
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    Otmar Bauer Zeigt

    1969 — a.k.a. Vomit-Action, in 1 top list Check
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    Particle Removal Series

    1972, in 1 top list Check
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    Skullduggery

    1962, in 1 top list Check
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    Smoking

    1966, in 1 top list Check
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    Studie II: Hallucinationer

    1952, in 1 top list Check
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    The Big Shave

    1967, in 3 top lists Check
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    Le cadeau

    1961 — a.k.a. The Present, in 1 top list Check
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    Canyon

    1970, in 1 top list Check
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