Director Profile

Angelo Madsen (previously known as Madsen Minax or Angelo Madsen Minax 2005-2024) is a multi-disciplinary artist and filmmaker. 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, Leslie-Lohman Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, REDCAT, Museum of Moving Image, Anthology Film Archives, and from garages, basements, attics, and hallways 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 a New York Times Critics Pick, and has been called "A beautiful, complex wonder of a film," by Rolling Stone, ranking 11 on its top 25 films of 2021 list. His latest feature "A Body to Live In," has been praised as "Carnal knowledge" by Art Forum and "A cinema of devotion," by Film Comment. It is currently available streaming on the Criterion Channel.