Angelo Madsen
Appears in 17 titles

Angelo Madsen (previously known as Madsen Minax or Angelo Madsen Minax 2005-2024) is a multi-disciplinary 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. Madsen's 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 Time-Based 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).

Filmography

North by Current
6.0
North by Current
2021
Director
Kairos Dirt and the Errant Vacuum
Two Sons and a River of Blood
One Night at Babes
6.0
One Night at Babes
2024
Director
Bigger on the Inside
Bigger on the Inside
2022
Director
The Eddies
The Eddies
2019
Director
At the River
At the River
2020
Director
Because of Us
Because of Us
2018
Director
The Source Is a Hole
The Source Is a Hole
2017
Director
Forward into the Afternoon
2014
Director
My Most Handsome Monster
2014
Director
No Show Girls
2012
Director
A Body to Live In
A Body to Live In
2025
Director
Revise/Disguise
2011
Director
My Structuralist Film
My Structuralist Film
2026
Director