Amos Poe
Amos Poe (1949–2025) was an American filmmaker and a pioneering figure of New York No Wave Cinema. Born Amos Porges in Tel Aviv, he moved with his family to East Meadow, New York, at the age of eight. From the East Village punk and art scene he made some of the earliest punk films, most notably The Blank Generation (1976), co-directed with Ivan Král, capturing live performances by Television, Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Richard Hell, and Wayne County at CBGB. Working in a DIY register that drew on the French New Wave, the avant-garde, and B-movie genres, he went on to make Unmade Beds, The Foreigner, and Subway Riders, helping define the No Wave movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s. He later taught filmmaking at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and Brooklyn College.