Amos Poe
Nacimiento : 1949-01-01, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Historia
Amos Poe, born Amos Jay Porges, is a quintessential New York independent filmmaker. He was a key figure in the emergence of the No Wave cinema movement that evolved from the punk music scene and flourished from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s on New York's Lower East Side.
Self
A documentary about the influential independent film production company The Shooting Gallery.
Felix
Dos amigos compiten por la atención de un extraño que se desmaya en la puerta de su casa.
Writer
A Walk In The Park is, in the words of its protagonist Brian Fass, “a science fiction film, a psychedelic journey back to the womb...” This documentary-like journey, progresses from non-fiction to fiction, and dizzyingly, dazzlingly back again.
Director
A Walk In The Park is, in the words of its protagonist Brian Fass, “a science fiction film, a psychedelic journey back to the womb...” This documentary-like journey, progresses from non-fiction to fiction, and dizzyingly, dazzlingly back again.
Himself
In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire circumstances that inspired artists like Jim Jarmusch, Lizzy Borden, and Amos Poe to produce some of their best works. Taking their cues from punk rock and new wave music, these young maverick filmmakers confronted viewers with a stark reality that stood in powerful contrast to the escapist product being churned out by Hollywood.
Director
A new translation of Dante's Divine Comedy channeling the tools of Edward Muybridge and a meditation on the perception of motion in a motion picture.
Self
the connections and energy flow between the various artists populating the 1980s sub-cultures of New York and Berlin. Features Jim Jarmusch, Lydia Lunch, Blixa Bargeld, Alex Hacke, Gudrun Gut, Nick Cave, and others. An important film. Bravo, Mr. Dreher.
Producer
The life of a woman is transformed after she is diagnosed with a terminal disease, fired from her job and abandoned by her boyfriend. Given two months to live, she throws caution to the wind to pursue her dreams.
Screenplay
The life of a woman is transformed after she is diagnosed with a terminal disease, fired from her job and abandoned by her boyfriend. Given two months to live, she throws caution to the wind to pursue her dreams.
Author
The life of a woman is transformed after she is diagnosed with a terminal disease, fired from her job and abandoned by her boyfriend. Given two months to live, she throws caution to the wind to pursue her dreams.
Producer
A tribute to the bustling beauty of Manhattan, inspired by Andy Warhol's 1964 film "Empire".
Director
A tribute to the bustling beauty of Manhattan, inspired by Andy Warhol's 1964 film "Empire".
Himself
From 1978 to 1982, Glenn O'Brien hosted a New York city public access cable TV show called TV Party. Co-hosted by Chris Stein, from Blondie, and directed by filmmaker Amos Poe, the hour long show took television where it had never gone before: to the edge of civility and "sub-realism" as Glenn would put it. Walter Steding and his TV Party "Orchestra" provided a musical accompaniment to the madness at hand, and many artists and musicians, from The Clash, Nile Rodgers, Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Bryne and Arto Lindsey were regular guests. It was the cocktail party that could be a political party. With 80 hours of disintegrating 3/4 inch videotape as a starting point, we tracked down the trend setting participants still living today and found out what they remember of the period and how the show influenced their lives. This, combined with clips from the orginal show, became the documentary "TV Party.
Director
A musical documentary film about the politically minded singer/songwriter Steve Earle.
Conversationalist at Mudd Club
The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into.
Screenplay
A group of unemployed theater actors survive by working as illegal money collectors. The loan shark they are working for owns an Off-Broadway theater. As he decided to play "American Buffalo" there, a bloody battle for the favorite roles begin.
Director
A group of unemployed theater actors survive by working as illegal money collectors. The loan shark they are working for owns an Off-Broadway theater. As he decided to play "American Buffalo" there, a bloody battle for the favorite roles begin.
Director
In the midst of an evacuation effort, True World Forces agent Weed must secure an alien spacecraft suspected to have crashed somewhere in the city. But after Weed meets the ship's beautiful, shape-shifting pilot, he finds himself falling for her. As the two grow close, Weed struggles to determine where his true loyalties lie.
Producer
Joey Breaker is a fast-talking, ambitious, workaholic agent representing actors, screenwriters, and comedians for the New York firm of Morgan Creative. He is callous and intolerant, but when he unexpectedly falls in love, he begins to see that he has been missing much of what is important in life. His demeanor mellows and he learns to be more tolerant of others. Suddenly, he is faced with a difficult choice when his girlfriend graduates from nursing school and returns to Jamaica.
Producer
The Levys, a glamorous couple, used to make their living robbing golfers, until they met their fatal handicap. Years later, scriptwriter Remy Gravelle decides to observe the Levy progeny as they sail endlessly round Manhattan in their luxury yacht.
Writer
The Levys, a glamorous couple, used to make their living robbing golfers, until they met their fatal handicap. Years later, scriptwriter Remy Gravelle decides to observe the Levy progeny as they sail endlessly round Manhattan in their luxury yacht.
Director
The Levys, a glamorous couple, used to make their living robbing golfers, until they met their fatal handicap. Years later, scriptwriter Remy Gravelle decides to observe the Levy progeny as they sail endlessly round Manhattan in their luxury yacht.
Writer
Para celebrar el 77 cumpleaños de Levi Rockwell, sus cuatro hijos, yernos, nueras y nietos se reúnen en la bonita casa familiar de Long Island. Allí nace una entrañable relación entre Levi y su nieto Cy Blue, de cinco años. Cuando le preguntan al patriarca sobre el regalo de cumpleaños que desea, sorprende a sus nietos contestando que lo que quiere es que el día de su muerte le preparen un funeral vikingo.
Writer
Con 19 años, Johnny es el rey de la Alphabet City, 50 cuadras de la decadencia urbana que alberga un mercado de narcóticos subterráneo. Cuando su jefe, Gino, le pide a Johnny que queme el edificio donde vive su madre, Johnny sabe que es hora de salir y desciende en Alphabet City para hacer rondas de la tarde una vez más.
Director
Con 19 años, Johnny es el rey de la Alphabet City, 50 cuadras de la decadencia urbana que alberga un mercado de narcóticos subterráneo. Cuando su jefe, Gino, le pide a Johnny que queme el edificio donde vive su madre, Johnny sabe que es hora de salir y desciende en Alphabet City para hacer rondas de la tarde una vez más.
Hustler in Bar
A narcissistic runaway engages in a number of parasitic relationships amongst members of New York's waning punk scene.
N°163
Reel 17 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
Editor
A psychotic saxophone player lures victims to deserted spots with his music and then guns them down.
Producer
A psychotic saxophone player lures victims to deserted spots with his music and then guns them down.
Writer
A psychotic saxophone player lures victims to deserted spots with his music and then guns them down.
Director
A psychotic saxophone player lures victims to deserted spots with his music and then guns them down.
Writer Ant
A psychotic saxophone player lures victims to deserted spots with his music and then guns them down.
A woman, Nadja, searches for her sister's murderer. This search goes through differing moments of reality, or unreality, that overlap within facets of a broken-up time sense. In this emulation of film noir, the investigative structure does not create suspense; the dialectic murderer/victim does not exist. The crime is fabricated bit by bit, like the staging of a spectacle, and it is in the traditional tools of seduction (the spiked heels) that the weapons will be hidden. Ultimately, the crime Nadja achieves makes her neither a triumphant heroine nor a victim.
Writer
A French special op suffers an existential crisis as he wanders New York City in search of a mission and the requisite connections.
Amos Nitrate
A French special op suffers an existential crisis as he wanders New York City in search of a mission and the requisite connections.
Director
A French special op suffers an existential crisis as he wanders New York City in search of a mission and the requisite connections.
Editor
The cream of the New York new wave/punk crop, filmed live at CBGB when the scene was just beginning. Includes performances by Patti Smith, Blondie, Television, the Ramones, Talking Heads, the Heartbreakers, the Shirts, Wayne County, the Marbles, the Dolls, Miamis, Harry Toledo, and the Tuff Darts (w/Robert Gordon).
Producer
The cream of the New York new wave/punk crop, filmed live at CBGB when the scene was just beginning. Includes performances by Patti Smith, Blondie, Television, the Ramones, Talking Heads, the Heartbreakers, the Shirts, Wayne County, the Marbles, the Dolls, Miamis, Harry Toledo, and the Tuff Darts (w/Robert Gordon).
Director
The cream of the New York new wave/punk crop, filmed live at CBGB when the scene was just beginning. Includes performances by Patti Smith, Blondie, Television, the Ramones, Talking Heads, the Heartbreakers, the Shirts, Wayne County, the Marbles, the Dolls, Miamis, Harry Toledo, and the Tuff Darts (w/Robert Gordon).
Editor
Sketched loosely, the narrative of Poe's first feature is as scrappy and paper-thin as its protagonist Rico, a self-styled loner in New York City circa 1976 who longs to inhabit the "New Wave" scene of mid-60s Paris. In Rico's day-to-day life as an unsuccessful photographer, he wearily searches for authentic connection-- even as he spouts the most inauthentic prose imaginable.
Writer
Sketched loosely, the narrative of Poe's first feature is as scrappy and paper-thin as its protagonist Rico, a self-styled loner in New York City circa 1976 who longs to inhabit the "New Wave" scene of mid-60s Paris. In Rico's day-to-day life as an unsuccessful photographer, he wearily searches for authentic connection-- even as he spouts the most inauthentic prose imaginable.
Director
Sketched loosely, the narrative of Poe's first feature is as scrappy and paper-thin as its protagonist Rico, a self-styled loner in New York City circa 1976 who longs to inhabit the "New Wave" scene of mid-60s Paris. In Rico's day-to-day life as an unsuccessful photographer, he wearily searches for authentic connection-- even as he spouts the most inauthentic prose imaginable.
Director
This is Poe and Král's first effort, shot on small-gauge stock, before their more well-known endeavor The Blank Generation (1976) came to be. A "DIY" portrait of the New York music scene, the film is a patchwork of footage of numerous rock acts performing live, at venues like Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, the dive bars of Greenwich Village and, of course, CBGB.
