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

Michelle Trujillo

Holyoke, MA
website

@Pionerafilmvideo

Michelle Trujillo was born in Miami to Colombian and Costa Rican parents and grew up in South Florida. The focus of her practice is to question and explore representations of Latine culture, gender and identity. She is concerned with upsetting power structures and notions of normality through disorientation. She works in Spanish, English and Spanglish as a mirroring of her lived experience. She also works in various mediums such as eco and hand-processed 16mm film, digital video, 35mm still film and cyanotypes.


Hurricane Season


00:06:22
Experimental, Short

Hurricane anxiety takes a visceral form as the image searches for an escape route. Inspired by true events. Created on 16mm film and developed with comfrey, mint, yerba mate and willow leaves.

Her films have been exhibited in festivals, galleries and conferences nationally and internationally such as Alchemy Film Festival, RPM, Mimesis Documentary Festival and has won awards such as the Lightpress Grant and the LEF Moving Image Grant.