Amos Poe- 1949---- 2025
Amos Poe
Born: 1949, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Died: December 25, 2025
Amos Poe is one of the first punk filmmakers and his film The Blank Generation (1976)—co-directed with Ivan Kral— is one of the earliest punk films. The film featured performances by Richard Hell, Talking Heads, Television, Patti Smith and Wayne County.
He is also associated with the birth of No Wave Cinema due to films such as The Foreigner (1978), featuring Debbie Harry and Anya Phillips, and Subway Riders (1981), starring Susan Tyrrell and Robbie Coltrane. During this time he was also the director of the Public-access television cable TV show TV Party hosted by Glenn O'Brien and Chris Stein.
“The Blank Generation”
An invaluable document of a long-lost era, The Blank Generation "sets the style for the Punk Documentary—raw, sloppily spliced, unsynched footage of bands, with sound recorded by cassette.
