Angelo Madsen Minax is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and educator. Madsen’s projects consider how human relationships are woven through personal and collective histories, cultures, and kinship — with specific attention to subcultural experience, phenomenology, and the politics of desire. Madsen's works have been shown at the Berlinale, the Toronto International Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, BAM CinemaFest, Anthology Film Archives, the British Film Institute, and dozens of LGBT film festivals around the world. He is a recipient of awards and fellowships from the Sundance Film Institute, BAVC Media, New York State Council on the Arts, LEF Foundation (Cambridge, MA). He has participated in residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (ME), the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Yaddo, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and others. His film, North By Current (2021), aired on season 34 of POV (PBS) and was nominated for an Independent Spirit award and won the Cinema Eye Honors Spotlight award and Best Writing award from the IDA in addition to numerous festival jury prizes. A New York Times Critic's 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 currently an Associate Professor of Time-Based Media at the University of Vermont, a Queer|Art Mentor, and a current Guggenheim Fellow.