Amir George Explained

Amir George
Birth Date:21 May
Occupation:Director, Writer and Curator
Yearsactive:2008–present

Amir George is an American filmmaker, artist, and curator.[1] [2] [3] He is best known for Black Radical Imagination, an international touring experimental film program he co-founded with Erin Christovale.[4] In November 2022 he became the Artistic Director of Kartemquin Films

Career

Amir’s student film Sneaker Freak mede waves on blogs in 2008, In 2011, he directed a short film The Mind of Delilah starring Thai Tyler and The Twilite Tone. In 2012, while working at Black Cinema House, Amir met Erin Christovale, the two formed a bond and began curating "Black Radical Imgaination. In 2017, he released a short film entitled Decadent Asylum.[5]

Amir's films have screened at institutions and film festivals including Anthology Film Archives, Glasgow School of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, BlackStar Film Festival, and Chicago Underground Film Festival, among others.[6] [7] [8] [9]

Amir has served as a film programmer for True/False Film Fest and Chicago International Film Festival.

Black Radical Imagination

Black Radical Imagination is an international touring film program founded by Amir George and Erin Christovale. The films featured contextualized afrofuturist ideas through contemporary experimental films created by Black filmmakers. The first consecutive screenings took place in 2013 in Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago between Feb-May. In June that year, Black Radical Imagination was invited to screen at Mickalene Thomas’s Art Bar Installation, Better Days in Basel, Switzerland.[10] The Black Radical Imagination curated film programs have screened in art and cultural institutions including MoMA PS1, MOCA, Museo Taller Jose Clemente Orozco, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Institute of Contemporary Arts and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.[11] [12]

Filmography

YearFilmDirectorWriterProducerNotes
2022Silence of ClarityShort Film
2020Man of The PeopleShort Film
2020Optimum Continuum 3.1Short Film
2017Decadent AsylumShort Film
2014Just A PlaceShort Film
2013Mae’s JournalShort Film
2011The Mind of DelilahShort Film
2008Sneaker Freak Short Film

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Crowdfund This: Amir George’s "Metaphysical" Short Film ‘Decadent Asylum’. indiewire.com. 2019-02-28.
  2. Web site: Afrofuturist Filmmaker Amir George Screens at Unseen Festival. westword.com. 2019-02-28.
  3. Web site: 2018: The Year According to Amir George. walkerart.org. 2019-02-28.
  4. Web site: Urban Video Project: Interview with Curators of Black Radical Imagination. lightwork.org. 2019-02-28.
  5. Web site: Decadent Asylum. cuff.org. 2019-02-28.
  6. Web site: Contorting Metaphysical Hijinks Encounter with Amir George Curated by GeoVanna Gonzalez. theinstituteforendoticresearch.org. 2019-02-28.
  7. Web site: Black Radical Imagination Film Screening Curated by Amir George and Erin Christovale. gsa.ac.uk. 2019-02-28.
  8. Web site: In Progress: Amir George. mcachicago.org. 2019-02-28.
  9. Web site: AAFF HONORS BLACK HISTORY MONTH. aafilmfest.org. 2019-02-28.
  10. Web site: Black Radical Imagination Film Screening Event At Art Basel, Friday, June 14. indiewire.com. 2019-02-28.
  11. Web site: Black Radical Imagination. moma.org. 2019-02-28.
  12. Web site: Talks with Genius: Amir George "The Alchemist of Film". thechicagolite.com. 2019-02-28.

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