LEAP INTO THE VOID with The Master Class in Comparative Design, a three-quarter investigation AMOSPOE of the full spectrum of design, from critical theory and studio practice to cultural relevance and literacy. The Master Class is taught on SCAD’s Savannah campus and in the highly charged studio that is New York City. in conversation with Film Historian VERA DIKA Soho House | 10 . 22 . 13 Master Class Created by Dakota Jackson AMOS POE is one of the leaders of the No Wave Cinema movement that grew out of New York City’s “There is the downtown music and art scene. In 1975, Poe and Ivan Kral produced, shot, and edited what is considered to be the first punk film, The Blank Generation, which followed strange sense of performances of Television, The Ramones, Blondie, Patti Smith, The Talking Heads, The Heartbreakers, and Wayne Country. Poe continues to write, direct, and produce, and the ‘already seen' completed Empire II in 2007, a homage to Andy Warhol’s Empire. Poe teaches experimental filmmaking and screenwriting at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Poe’s in Unmade Beds as other films include The Foreigner (1978), Subway Riders (1981), Alphabet City (1985), Rocket Gibraltar (1988), and The Guitar (2007). it flutters between eras and places. VERA DIKA holds a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from NYU and has taught at UCLA, USU, UC Santa Barbara, Rutgers University, and New Jersey City University. Spe- Yet, there is also cializing in American film from 1973 to the present, Dika is the author of two books that discuss Poe’s work in depth, Recycled Culture in Contemporary Art and Film: The Uses the breathtaking of Nostalgia (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and The (Moving) Pictures Generation: The Cinematic Impulse in Downtown New York Film and Art (Palgrave Macmillan, chronicling of a 2012). new generation just coming into being." — Vera Dika, The (Moving) Pictures Generation: The Cinematic Impulse in Downtown New York Film and Art.