Cinema 16 was a New York City–based film society founded by Amos Vogel.
From 1947 to 1963, he and his wife, Marcia, ran the most successful and influential membership film society in North American history, at its height boasting 7000 members.
[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.
In that, it differed even from the narrative-oriented art cinemas that appeared in the postwar years.