Amare mcarthur

Amare is a filmmaker and visual artist whose images exist somewhere between the world as it is and the world as it feels. His work is built on vibrant color, deep contrast, and a surrealist sensibility that transforms a single frame into an entire emotional landscape — vivid, layered, and unmistakably alive.

With a foundation in narrative film writing and brand storytelling, Amare approaches every project as a director approaches a scene. He develops intricate concepts, builds environments, and invites his subjects into them: not to be photographed, but to be explored. The pursuit is perfection, but perfection defined on its own terms: images that are precisely crafted and genuinely real, never manufactured.

Amare’s work captures emotion at its most unguarded: joy, tension, vulnerability, power; and holds it with the kind of precision that only comes from someone who understands story at its core. His cinematic instincts push every shoot beyond the surface, toward something that lingers.

What remains is imagery with soul. Work that doesn't ask to be looked at so much as felt.

Portrait of a young man with dreadlocks, earrings, and a black hoodie smiling with arms crossed against a neutral grey background.

THE MAN WITH NO EYES

Written & Directed by Amare McArthur

Currently in post-production.

Screening begins October 2026.

Support the short film via our crowdfunding link!

A young man with realistic blood and injury makeup on his face, looking upward and smiling slightly, wearing a gray hoodie.
A man with a bleeding wound on his face and blood on his shirt, being comforted by a woman with long black hair, against a plain background.
People walking on a wooden pier with benches, lampposts, and waterfront cityscape in the background, during sunset or sunrise.
A woman with dark curly hair, wearing pearl earrings and a brown jacket, is holding and licking an ice cream cone outdoors on a sunny day. In the background, seagulls are flying near a seaside promenade.
Person with curly hair and fake blood on face and shirt, wearing a gray hoodie and denim jacket, standing outdoors with flags in the background.

Let’s Work Together!

Currently in post-production for The Man with No Eyes & working as a Media Producer with BAVC Media apart of their PG&E fellowship.

If you have a longer project you’d like to book me for please contact me directly at

prophetcollectivebiz@gmail.com

Thank you!

A close-up of a young man wearing a black hoodie, sitting on public transportation, with a row of other passengers visible behind him. The background shows large windows and blurry reflections of city buildings.
A person with dreadlocks wearing a black hoodie and cargo pants taking a mirror selfie, holding a camera in front of their face. They are indoors, and a restroom stall is visible in the background.
A person with dreadlocks sitting in a car seat, holding two professional-grade cameras, with a tattoo visible on their arm.
Young man with dreadlocks adjusting a camera or film boom in a studio.