Amir George

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| occupation = Director, Writer and Curator

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Amir George is an American filmmaker, artist, and curator.{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2015/10/crowdfund-this-amir-georges-metaphysical-short-film-decadent-asylum-234393/|title=Crowdfund This: Amir George’s "Metaphysical" Short Film ‘Decadent Asylum’|website=indiewire.com|access-date=2019-02-28}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.westword.com/arts/amir-george-at-counterpath-and-off-cinemas-unseen-festival-of-experimental-film-9483870|title=Afrofuturist Filmmaker Amir George Screens at Unseen Festival|website=westword.com|access-date=2019-02-28}}{{Cite web|url=https://walkerart.org/magazine/2018-the-year-according-to-amir-george|title=2018: The Year According to Amir George|website=walkerart.org|access-date=2019-02-28}} He is best known for Black Radical Imagination, an international touring experimental film program he co-founded with Erin Christovale.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lightwork.org/news/urban-video-project-interview-with-curators-of-black-radical-imagination/|title=Urban Video Project: Interview with Curators of Black Radical Imagination|website=lightwork.org|access-date=2019-02-28}} In November 2022 he became the Artistic Director of Kartemquin Films but left the position after less than one year.

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.{{Cite web|url=https://cuff.org/films/decadent-asylum/|title=Decadent Asylum|website=cuff.org|access-date=2019-02-28}}

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.{{Cite web|url=http://theinstituteforendoticresearch.org/wp/august-9-amir-george/|title=Contorting Metaphysical Hijinks Encounter with Amir George Curated by GeoVanna Gonzalez|website=theinstituteforendoticresearch.org|access-date=2019-02-28}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.gsa.ac.uk/life/gsa-events/events/b/black-radical-imagination-screening/|title=Black Radical Imagination Film Screening Curated by Amir George and Erin Christovale|website=gsa.ac.uk|access-date=2019-02-28}}{{Cite web|url=https://mcachicago.org/Calendar/2018/04/In-Progress-Amir-George|title=In Progress: Amir George|website=mcachicago.org|access-date=2019-02-28}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.aafilmfest.org/single-post/2018/02/01/AAFF-Honors-Black-History-Month|title=AAFF HONORS BLACK HISTORY MONTH|website=aafilmfest.org|access-date=2019-02-28}}

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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2013/06/black-radical-imagination-film-screening-event-at-art-basel-friday-june-14-236183/|title=Black Radical Imagination Film Screening Event At Art Basel, Friday, June 14|website=indiewire.com|access-date=2019-02-28}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/2653|title=Black Radical Imagination|website=moma.org|access-date=2019-02-28}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.thechicagolite.com/amir-george/|title=Talks with Genius: Amir George "The Alchemist of Film"|website=thechicagolite.com|access-date=2019-02-28}}

= Filmography =

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Year !Film !Director !Writer !Producer !Notes
2022 \|Silence of Clarity \|{{y}} \|{{y}} \|{{y}} \|Short Film
2020 \|Man of The People \| style="text-align:center;" \| {{y}} \| style="text-align:center;" \| {{y}} \| \| Short Film
2020 \| Optimum Continuum 3.1 \| style="text-align:center;" \| {{y}} \| style="text-align:center;" \| {{y}} \| style="text-align:center;" \| {{y}} \| Short Film
2017 \| Decadent Asylum \| style="text-align:center;" \| {{y}} \| style="text-align:center;" \| {{y}} \| style="text-align:center;" \| {{y}} \| Short Film
2014 \| Just A Place \| style="text-align:center;" \| {{y}} \| style="text-align:center;" \| {{y}} \| style="text-align:center;" \| {{y}} \| Short Film
2013 \| Mae’s Journal \| style="text-align:center;" \| {{y}} \| style="text-align:center;" \| {{y}} \| style="text-align:center;" \| {{y}} \| Short Film
2011 \| The Mind of Delilah \| style="text-align:center;" \| {{y}} \| style="text-align:center;" \| {{y}} \| style="text-align:center;" \| {{y}} \| Short Film
2008 \| Sneaker Freak \| style="text-align:center;" \| {{y}} \| style="text-align:center;" \| {{y}} \| style="text-align:center;" \| {{y}} \| Short Film

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2022

|Silence of Clarity

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|Short Film

2020

|Man of The People