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
Sarah Lasley
Eureka, CA
website
@sarah_lasley
Sarah Lasley is an award-winning filmmaker from Louisville, Kentucky living and working in Eureka, California. She has screened internationally at festivals, museums, and galleries, such as Slamdance, Ann Arbor, Cairo Video Festival, 25 FPS Film Festival, Les Instants Video, Katonah Museum of Art, and the Wrong Biennale. She holds an MFA from Yale School of Art and a BFA from University of Louisville and was a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Climate Control
00:15:00
Documentary, Experimental, Short
Producer: Nicola Waugh
Sound Design/Mix: James Russell
Score by: Christian Ruggiero & Yannis Panos
In this metafictional comedy about the climate crisis and generative AI, a director making a documentary about fossil fuel extraction is consistently subverted by an AI agent that wants to tell a generic love story. Made in collaboration with Gen Z film students at Cal Poly Humboldt, the film looks at generational responses to the climate crisis through an absurdist lens, connecting the extraction of natural resources to the extraction of our human data and the extraction of our attention in this post-information era.