Amir George
Directing
Biography
Amir 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.
Known For
A romance is played in reverse, revealed through memories brought on by improvisational music.
One For My Baby
A collection of 190-second short films created in response to COVID-19, commissioned by filmmakers Usama Alshaibi and Adam Sekuler.
CINEMA-19
In 1960s France, a jazz musician becomes the subject of an impromptu documentary.
Bailey's Blues
Silence of Clarity is an immersion into the experiences and imaginations of people living with stutters. Individuals convene at a utopian therapy center to seek out their higher selves.
Silence of Clarity
2017, 4 minutes
Black Chains
An on-going barrage of blackness always in progress, abrupt editing rhythms that play off black visual intonation aesthetics.
Optimum Continuum 3.1
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
Abefele is a meditation on artistic and spiritual duality interpreted through the sport of fencing.
Abefele
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
The movement is the voice in the mirror. Moments of Intention is a vibration migrating from winter. Spirits working in tandem as a force of creativity.
Moments of Intention
Multifaceted artist Avery R. Young crafts a blues album inspired by a chance encounter with a concertgoer.