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

Kartemquin Films Kartemquin Films is a four-time Oscar-nominated 501(c)3 non-profit production company located in Chicago, Illinois, that produces a wide range of documentary films. It is the documentary filmmaking home of acclaimed producers such as Gordon Quinn ( ...

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

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. 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''. Amir's films have screened at institutions and film festivals including

Anthology Film Archives Anthology Film Archives is an international center for the film preservation, preservation, film studies, study, and film distribution, exhibition of film and video, with a particular focus on independent film, independent, experimental film, ex ...

Glasgow School of Art The Glasgow School of Art (GSA; ) is a higher education art school based in Glasgow, Scotland, offering undergraduate degrees, post-graduate awards (both taught and research-led), and PhDs in architecture, fine art, and design. These are all awa ...

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago is a contemporary art art gallery, museum near Water Tower Place in the Near North Side, Chicago, Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. The museum, which was established in 1967, is on ...

Ann Arbor Film Festival The Ann Arbor Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Established in 1963, it is the fourth-oldest film festival in North America (after the Yorkton Film Festival, 1947; Columbus International Film & Video Festival, 19 ...

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, Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, BlackStar Film Festival, and Chicago Underground Film Festival, among others. Amir has served as a film programmer for True/False Film Fest and

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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

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’s Art Bar Installation, Better Days in Basel, Switzerland. The Black Radical Imagination curated film programs have screened in art and cultural institutions including

MoMA PS1 MoMA PS1 is a contemporary art institution at 2201 Jackson Avenue in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens in New York City, United States. In addition to its exhibitions, the institution organizes the Sunday Sessions performance series, th ...

, MOCA, Museo Taller Jose Clemente Orozco,

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a research library of the New York Public Library (NYPL) and an archive repository for information on people of African descent worldwide. Located at 515 Malcolm X Boulevard (Lenox Avenue) be ...

Institute of Contemporary Arts The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is an modernism, artistic and cultural centre on The Mall (London), The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square. Located within Nash House, part of Carlton House Terrace, near the Duke of York Steps a ...

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Filmography

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