Visiting Filmmakers Series Online: KJ Mohr, Amir George, Nzingha Kendall: Curating as Artistic Practice

Thursday, April 23, 2020 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM EDT
Online Location

Amir George is a filmmaker and curator, based in Chicago. George is a programmer at True/False Film Fest and cofounder of Black Radical Imagination with Curator Erin Christovale. 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, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Anthology Film Archives, Glasgow School of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Trinidad and Tobago International Film Festival, BlackStar Film Festival, Afrikana Film Festival, and Chicago Underground Film Festival, among others.

See his work on Vimeo.

 

Nzingha Kendall is a film scholar and programmer. Her work focuses on moving images by black women from across the diaspora. She has a PhD in American Studies from Indiana University and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia.

 

 

 

KJ Mohr has been working in cinema as a curator, programmer, educator, filmmaker and consultant for almost three decades. She is a programming consultant for the Maryland Film Festival, curating films and events for the festival's three screen year-round cinema in Baltimore, the Parkway Theatre. KJ teaches in the Film and Video Studies Department at George Mason University, having previously been part of the film faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Past posts include: Director of Programming at the Tampa Bay International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Programmer for the Annapolis Film Festival, Director of Film and Digital Media Programs at Baltimore’s Creative Alliance, Film and Media Arts Programmer at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC, and Curator of Conversations at the Edge, a weekly visiting filmmaker series at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago. She got her start in film with the seminal Chicago media arts and activist organization and film festival, Women in the Director’s Chair. 

 

Before the session, please read this short article to start thinking about curating as an artistic practice.