Angelo Madsen

Angelo Madsen previously known as Madsen Minax or Angelo Madsen Minax 20052024 is a multidisciplinary artist filmmaker and educator His projects consider how human relationships are woven through personal and collective histories cultures and kinships with specific attention to subcultural experience phenomenology and the politics of desire Madsens works have shown at Berlinale Sundance Toronto International Film Festival New York Film Festival Tribeca De La Warr Pavilion the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago REDCAT Museum of Moving Image Anthology Film Archives British Film Institute and dozens of documentary LGBT and experimental film festivals around the world He is a Creative Capital Fellow 2025 a United States Artists Fellow 2023 a Guggenheim Fellow 2022 and has participated in residencies at Yaddo MacDowell Pioneer Works Headlands the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston Bemis Center for Contemporary Art and others His film North By Current 2021 aired on season 34 of POV PBS was nominated for an Independent Spirit award and won the Cinema Eye Honors Spotlight award Best Writing award from the IDA and numerous festival jury prizes A New York Times Critics Pick North By Current has been called A beautiful complex wonder of a film by Rolling Stone and A titanic work by Criterion Madsen as friends call him is an an Associate Professor of TimeBased Media at the University of Vermont and is currently releasing A Body To Live in 2025 about the world of body modification as documented through the lens of photographer and performance artist Fakir Musafar Single channel film and video works are available from the Video Data Bank various titles Outcast Films Riot Acts and Grasshopper Film North By Current Mubi One Night At Babes and the New York Times Stay with me the world is a devastating place