Carl M. George — Director | Biography, Movies & Career

Biography

Carl George is an artist working primarily in film and collage. He is a founding member of the New York based art collective Allied Productions and has curated exhibitions in venues such as The Armand Hammer Museum, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, The New York Department of Cultural Affairs, Participant, Inc., The Kinsey Institute, Warner Brothers, Paramount Studios, and Cinecitta Studios, Rome. Many of his short experimental films have been shown across the USA and Canada, and in festivals internationally and are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney, the Guggenheim Museum, and the New York Public Library. His 1986 short film, The Lost 40 Days has been digitized with the assistance of the National Film Preservation Foundation and now resides in the permanent collections of the National Film Archive at the Library of Congress, the New York Filmmakers Coop, and Anthology Film Archives in New York. His 1989 film DHPG Mon Amour, documenting the radical advances made by people with AIDS in developing their own health care, is a classic of AIDS activist filmmaking and was recently incorporated into the Oscar-nominated documentary How to Survive a Plague (2012). Carl was chosen for a residency at the Yaddo artist colony in Saratoga Springs, New York and is a recipient of several grants and honors including the Canada Council for the Arts, the New York State Council for the Arts, and a 2022 Kresge Fellowship