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
Courtney Taniguchi
Los Angeles, CA
website
@milkmooncomics
Courtney Taniguchi is a Los Angeles native. The LA fires respectively touched her first home and current neighborhood. Her work includes clients such as Nike, ESPN, and the NRDC. Her editing was nominated for an Emmy short documentary film.
Yan Sham-Shackleton is from Hong Kong and immigrated to the US in 2006. She resides in Los Angeles. She loves writing, art, yoga, and her two cats.
Ian Gottlieb is a Los Angeles-based composer and cellist who draws from wide-ranging musical worlds, including studying classical music at Yale, jamming samba in Sao Paulo, and touring China with experimental rock band Invisible Anatomy. His film music appears on Netflix, Disney+, and MGM+ in productions including Chef‚ Table and The Witcher. His concert works, written for everything from folk instruments to full orchestra, have been performed by Grammy-winning and nominated artists, including Palaver Strings, Sandbox Percussion, and Hilary Summers.
I Never Thought of Phoenixes
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Animation, Experimental, Short
Yan Sham-Shackleton, Music: Ian Gottlieb
I Never Thought of Phoenixes is an experimental film response to, and reflection on the fires that happened in Los Angeles, California and Hong Kong in 2025. The film alludes to the mythology of both the Western and Chinese birds. All filmmakers reside in Los Angeles, California, while Yan Sham-Shackleton, who wrote and narrated the poem, immigrated from Hong Kong. The visuals are a mixture of animation by Courtney Taniguchi, news footage, and personal photographs. The music is an original score by Ian Gottlieb.