ABOUT THE TEAM
Angelo Madsen, Writer/Director/Editor (Previously known as Madsen Minax) 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, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Museum of Moving Image, Leslie-Lohman Museum, De La Warr Pavilion, 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, 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. In 2024 the Video Data Bank acquired over 20 of Madsen’s videos to create a compilation of early works (2002-2008) called CHICAGO SEX CHANGE. Madsen is currently an Associate Professor of Time-Based Media at the University of Vermont. He lives between Burlington, VT and New York City.