BIO
Angelo Madsen is a multi-disciplinary artist, filmmaker, and academic who also curates, writes, performs, and composes. His projects weave personal and collective histories, cultures, and kinships, with interests in self-mythologies, embodiment, 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 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 International Documentary Association, 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. His newest feature "A Body to Live In," premiered at True/False Film Festival in 2025, and screened at over 25 other film festivals before a 12-city theatrical release. It has been praised as "Carnal knowledge" by Art Forum and "A cinema of devotion," by Film Comment.
Madsen's moving image 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).
Courses
- ARTS 2640
- ARTS 3650
Bio
Angelo Madsen is a multi-disciplinary artist, filmmaker, and academic who also curates, writes, performs, and composes. His projects weave personal and collective histories, cultures, and kinships, with interests in self-mythologies, embodiment, 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 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 International Documentary Association, 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. His newest feature "A Body to Live In," premiered at True/False Film Festival in 2025, and screened at over 25 other film festivals before a 12-city theatrical release. It has been praised as "Carnal knowledge" by Art Forum and "A cinema of devotion," by Film Comment.
Madsen's moving image 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).
Courses
- ARTS 2640
- ARTS 3650