Angelo Madsen Minax
{{Short description|American film director}}
Angelo Madsen Minax (born 1983) is an American filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist.
Life and career
Angelo Madsen Minax was born in Petoskey, Michigan in the US in 1983.{{Cite web |title=North By Current |url=https://www.berlinale.de/en/archive-selection/archive-2021/programme/detail/202103762.html |access-date=2022-05-28 |website=www.berlinale.de |language=en}} He studied art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at Northwestern University. He is an associate professor of time-based media at the University of Vermont.{{Cite web |title=A. Madsen Minax |url=https://www.uvm.edu/cas/art/profiles/madsen-minax |access-date=2022-05-28 |website=www.uvm.edu |language=en}}
Minax works in documentary, fiction and hybrid film forms, sound and music performances, text and media installations. Minax's films deal with themes of love and death, and punk, queer, rural, and activist cultures.{{Cite web |title=Angelo Madsen Minax |url=https://www.queer-art.org/angelo-madsen-minax |access-date=2022-05-28 |website=QUEER {{!}} ART |language=en-US}} North by Current, an auto-ethnographic film about death, grief, and trans identity{{Cite web |last=Cahn |first=Anna |date=2021-10-05 |title=Angelo Madsen Minax's North By Current |url=https://brooklynrail.org/2021/10/film/Angelo-Madsen-Minaxs-North-By-Current |access-date=2022-05-29 |website=The Brooklyn Rail |language=en-US}} features home movies from the 1960s - 1980s as well as footage shot by Minax between 2016 and 2020.{{Cite web |last=Monaghan |first=John |title=A Michigan family confronts police injustice, drugs and gender identity in 'North By Current' |url=https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/2021/09/21/north-by-current-documentary-grayling-michigan-family-exorcism/5794222001/ |access-date=2022-05-29 |website=Detroit Free Press |language=en-US}} The experimental documentary is narrated both by Minax and The Child, a character who can be interpreted as Minax's dead niece, his younger self, or a more distant observer.{{Cite web |title=Layered Losses: Angelo Madsen Minax Interviewed by Megan Milks |url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/angelo-madsen-minax-interviewed/ |access-date=2022-05-29 |website=BOMB Magazine}} North by Current premiered internationally at the 2021 Berlinale, in the U.S. at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival,{{Cite web |title=North By Current {{!}} 2021 Tribeca Festival |url=https://tribecafilm.com/films/north-by-current-2021 |access-date=2022-05-29 |website=Tribeca}} and has screened nationally and internationally.
Minax has also presented films at the European Media Art Festival, the Anthology Film Archives in New York and at numerous other film festivals. His work has been on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Leslie Lohman Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
In 2022, Minax was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Film-Video.{{Cite web |title=Angelo Madsen Minax |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/angelo-madsen-minax |access-date=May 4, 2025 |website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |language=en-US}}{{cite web |last1=Babineau |first1=Diana |title=A Guggenheim Fellow Explores Life Through Film |url=https://magazine.northwestern.edu/people/angelo-madsen-minax-north-by-current-documentary-filmmaker-guggenheim-fellow |website=Northwestern Magazine |publisher=Northwestern University |access-date=May 4, 2025 |date=Fall 2022}} In 2023 he was named a United States Artists (USA) fellow.{{Cite web |title=United States Artists » Angelo Madsen Minax |url=https://www.unitedstatesartists.org/fellow/angelo-madsen-minax/ |access-date=2023-03-14 |language=en-US}}
Filmography
- Bigger on the Inside (2022)
- North By Current (2021)
- Two Sons and a River of Blood (2021) (with Amber Bemak)
- At the River (2020)
- The Eddies (2018)
- Kairos Dirt & the Errant Vacuum (2017)
- The Source is a Hole (2017)
- Separation of the Earth (By Fire)
- My Most Handsome Monster (2014)
- The Year I Broke My Voice (2012)
- Riot Acts: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance (2010)
References
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Category:Film directors from Michigan
Category:American LGBTQ film directors
Category:People from Petoskey, Michigan
Category:School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni
Category:Northwestern University alumni
Category:University of Vermont faculty
Category:Transgender academics
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