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
Dwayne LeBlanc
Los Angeles, CA
website
@madehaste
Dwayne LeBlanc is a Los Angeles based, first gen Caribbean-American filmmaker whose work explores themes of migration, visibility, and dual identities.
His debut narrative short film, Civic, was named one of The Best Movies of 2023 by The New Yorker. His sophomore film, Now, Hear Me Good, premiered in the Tiger Shorts Competition at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) and has screened worldwide at major international festivals. Both films have been distributed on Criterion Channel. LeBlanc’s most recent work, You Do Not Exist, premiered at IFFR and has since been programmed at Clermont-Ferrand, Slamdance and True/False Film Fes among others. This project completes his short film trilogy.
His work has been presented at venues including The Met, MoMA, Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkeley, NYU, and CalArts. LeBlanc is one of Filmmaker Magazine's '25 New Faces of Independent Film,' a 2024 Dolby Institute Fellow, a Berlinale Talents alum, a Zurich Film Festival Academy alum, and a 2025 MacDowell fellow. He is now focused on the development of his debut feature film.
You Do Not Exist
00:08:00
Short
Starring: Barrington Darius,
Cinematographer : Andrew Yuyi Truong;
Editor: Nathan Rodgers
In the stillness of his yard, Booker watches the sky fill and empty with passing planes. As the world moves around him, he lingers, circling a memory whose edges blur with time.