OAMF - 2026
Open Air Media Festival
Open Air Media Festival (OAMF) is excited to announce the 2026 program; a traveling film/video art screening presented in three cities in late May and early June. The program will travel across the Midwest and Southeast bringing artists from across the country to outdoor, public locations.
The 2026 OAMF screening schedule:
Iowa City, IA
Friday May 29th, 8:30pm,
FilmScene in the Park
Greenville, SC
Friday June 5th, 8:30pm,
Monaghan Mill
Louisville, KY
Saturday, June 13th, 9:00pm,
Big Four Bridge
OAMF is co-organized by Zen Cohen, Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Clemson University, Clemson, SC and Dana Potter, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at the Hite Institute of Art + Design, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY with production assistance from Caleb Payne.
Participating artists were curated from a national open call, from 12 U.S. states, and spanning ages 25 to 72. Selected works exhibit a vast spectrum of video art including non-traditional documentary, 3D animation, narrative, and non-narrative, expanding public access to contemporary media art.
Open Air Media Festival is generously supported by:
City of Iowa City Public Art Program
FILM & VIDEO SCREENING
clay scofield
Bloomington, IN / Iowa City, IA
website
@orangesmadeofclay
Intermedia artist and poet, clay scofield (they/them) creates multimedia work that threads poetic narrative, performance and moving image. clay’s work has been featured in publications including Number, Dinner Bell, and Black Warrior Review and screened at Cucalorus Festival. They are Associate Arts Editor at Brink Literary Journal. They hold MFAs in studio art from Indiana University and poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
A nature documentary: Act I, Elements of Decomposition
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Animation, Experimental, Short
My current work, A nature documentary: elements of decomposition plays with transformations through redefinition of language: elements of composition are reinvented through slippage and sculptural activation as methods of meaning-making through accumulation and decay. Transforming trash into sculptural objects, I capture these objects in video that skews context, perspective, and scale so that the viewer questions where and what they are seeing, highlighting the ever-shifting in-betweenness of the objects-as-landscapes. Reenvisioning the poetic landscapes of experimental filmmakers like Peter Hutton, James Benning, and Godfrey Reggio through techniques inspired by the gutter art and genderqueer performance of Stephen Varble, I play with perspective, lighting, and material, to capture uncanny landscapes fabricated from disposable materials. In these landscapes, we can linger in the in-betweenness, in which everything-becomes-everything.