Amos Poe

Biography

Amos Poe was a pioneering indie filmmaker and key figure in the emergence of No Wave cinema movement on New York's Lower East Side. Born Amos Jay Porges in Tel Aviv in 1949, he dropped out of SUNY Buffalo and began making films with his first punk film, The Blank Generation (1976), co-directed with Ivan Král. Poe's work featured influential musicians like Richard Hell, Talking Heads, and Patti Smith.