Amir George
2021Amir George (US) is an award winning filmmaker based in Chicago. George is a film programmer at True/False Film Fest and Chicago International Film Festival. George is the co-founder of the touring film series Black Radical Imagination. As an artist, George creates spiritual stories, juxtaposing sound and image into an experience of non-linear perception. George’s films have screened at institutions and film festivals including Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Anthology Film Archives; Glasgow School of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; the Ann Arbor Film Festival; Trinidad and Tobago International Film Festival; BlackStar Film Festival and the Camden International Film Festival, among others.
Фильмы
Man of the People
Amir George
Man of the People is a political thriller centered on the legacy of the first black mayor of Chicago, Harold Washington. A complex unfolding of his two campaign runs and the moments leading to his sudden and mysterious death during his second term. Commissioned by Chicago Film Archives.
Man of the People
2021
Shades of Shadows
Amir George
An Afrofuturist found-footage film, "Shades of Shadows" is George's collaboration with psychedelic soul band the O'Mys, incorporating live action/animation to examine spiritual mysticism and ritual. Created solely with archival footage, the characters in the film seek to manifest a better self.
Shades of Shadows
2015
США, мультфильм