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


Jenelle Ely Stafford

Portland, ME
website

@jeneldorado

Jenelle Ely Stafford is an artist filmmaker, cinematographer, photographer, film programmer, educator and technician currently based in Portland, Maine.




hiatus B


00:08:21
Experimental, Short

regarding passage
to the light house (B-theory of time)
the great ecstasy of nothing-much