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
Roy Taylor
Louisville, KY
website
@paperworkfilms
Roy Taylor is a stop motion animator using paper and light on a multiplane camera rig in his home in Louisville, Kentucky. Growing up as a Super8 kid in the 1960s then working for decades as a technician in music and theatre he returned to stop motion animation in 2015. His films: A Tale of Crows, Wildfires, Poo, and All Four Seasons In Equal Measure, have been shown in festivals and galleries in Japan, Spain, Italy, Greece, Canada, and the United States. His most recent work, twit, was included in the Monstra festival in Portugal in the Baby Monstrinha division. He is presently in production of an animated feature, Crow Maiden.
twit
00:02:40
Animation, Short
Music & Voices: Julia Estrada
Animation & Music: Roy Taylor
Roy Taylor (aka paperworkfilms) takes an anthropomorphic and poetic look at birds in his short film twit. The piece playfully addresses our excruciating moment of tribalism and fascism, both global and domestic. Birds appear differently under varying light: blue on the left, red on the right. Yet as a magical aura emerges between them, offered by an oculus above, their wings shimmer together in a shared ultraviolet field where difference dissolves. Escaping their self-imposed Plato’s cave they flock in harmony; a poignant metaphor for our polarized era.
- Elle Hendrickson