Biography

Angelo Madsen (sometimes credited as Madsen Minax or Angelo Madsen Minax) is a multi-disciplinary artist and filmmaker. 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, Sheffield DocFest, AFI, Tribeca Film Festival, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Museum of Moving Image, Anthology Film Archives, 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 is a Creative Capital Fellow (2025), a United States Artists Fellow (2023), a Guggenheim Fellow (2022).
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