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
Masha Vlasova
Atlanta, GA
website
@m4sh4_v1as0va
Masha Vlasova is an award-winning experimental and non-fiction filmmaker. She has exhibited and screened her films at Ann Arbor Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Ottawa International Animation Festival, Smack Mellon, Anthology Archives, Abrons Arts Center, the Border Project Gallery in New York City, Vox Populi in Philadelphia, and Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, among others. Her experimental animation “Un-Tidal” was awarded “Original Concept” and “Best Celluloid Film” at Experimental Film Festival of East Anglia, UK. Her film "Midsummer" received an Honorable Mention at the Thomas Edison Film Festival. Her documentary short "Her Type" was honored with the Audience Choice Award at Burnt Video Art and Experimental Film Festival. Vlasova attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2024), she holds an MFA from Yale School of Art (2026) and a BFA from Cooper Union (2012). She's a Fulbright Fellow and a MacDowell Fellow.
Solar Storm
00:02:50
Experimental, Short
Light in its many forms‚ solar, aurora borealis, from a projector, peaking through 16mm brackets‚ is the subject and material of Solar Storm. The film toggles between the scales of the granular and microscopic to the vast and planetary. United in this collage of found and re-animated footage, one finds: an analog countdown from the start of a film reel, sun spots, magnetic field disturbances, and an overheard conversation. The film is created using an ink-jet direct-on-film technique where the digital frame is printed directly onto recycled 16mm celluloid.