Special Events – 2026
Amy Jenkins – In Person
Monday, April 13, 7:00 PM
Amy Jenkins is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work focuses on familial relationships and gender identity. She was recently awarded the Ford Foundation JustFilms Grant, a Santa Fe Art Institute Residency, the Sundance Documentary Film Grant, the Robert Flaherty Fellowship, the Harvard Film Study Center-LEF Fellowship, the Ewing Award for Interdisciplinary Art, and the New Hampshire Film Festival Filmmaker of the Year. Her films have also been supported by Points North Institute, Perspective Fund, Center for Independent Documentary, and Gotham. Her first documentary feature, Instructions on Parting, premiered at MoMA Doc Fortnight and won Best Feature Documentary at the Athens International Film and Video Festival, OH. Her work has been reviewed in many publications, including The New York Times, ARTnews, Bomb, Artcritical, Performing Arts Journal, and The Village Voice.
Angelo Madsen – In Person
Tuesday, April 14, 7:15 PM
Angelo Madsen (previously known as Madsen Minax or Angelo Madsen Minax 2005-2024) is a multi-disciplinary artist, filmmaker, and educator. His projects consider how human relationships are woven through personal and collective histories, cultures, and kinships, with specific attention to subcultural experience, phenomenology, and the politics of desire. Madsen’s works have shown at Berlinale, Sundance, Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Tribeca, De La Warr Pavilion, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, REDCAT, Museum of Moving Image, Anthology Film Archives, British Film Institute, and dozens of festivals around the world. He is a Creative Capital Fellow, a United States Artists Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and has participated in residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, Pioneer Works, Headlands, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and others. His film, “North By Current”, aired on season 34 of POV on PBS, was nominated for an Independent Spirit award, and won the Cinema Eye Honors Spotlight award, Best Writing award from the IDA and numerous festival jury prizes. Madsen, is an Associate Professor of Time-Based Media at the University of Vermont.
Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle In-Person
Wednesday, April 15, 7:00 PM
Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle have created multi-media art projects about love, sex, and queer ecologies together since 2002. Annie was a sex worker who morphed into a feminist performance artist. Beth has been a professor at the University of California Santa Cruz since 1994. The duo makes printed matter, writes books, and has gallery exhibitions of their multimedia artworks. They also create performance art, walking tours, and produce eco-activist symposiums. Their book, Assuming the Ecosexual Position—the Earth as Lover, (U of Minnesota Press) chronicles their epic love story and art/life adventures. “Playing with Fire—An Ecosexual Emergency” is the third in their trilogy of feature films that explore environmental issues through an ecosexual lens.
Boots Riley – In Person
Friday, April 17, 7:15 PM
Boots Riley is a director, activist, screenwriter, producer, poet, rapper, and speaker. His directorial debut “Sorry to Bother You” premiered to strong critical acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival. By embedding messages regarding economic and class critique as well as politically progressive movement building into dystopian science fiction satire, “Sorry To Bother You” brought issues surrounding income inequality into wide public discussion in the United States and abroad.
His seven-part series I’m A Virgo released in summer 2023 to critical acclaim. The absurdist comedy about a 13ft tall Black man who lives in Oakland, California stars Jharrel Jerome (who won an Emmy for his role in Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us), Brett Gray, Walton Goggins, Mike Epps, Carmen Ejogo, Kara Young, Olivia Washington, and Allius Barnes with a score by Tuneyards.
Boots Riley is also the founding member and lead vocalist of The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club featuring Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine on guitar. A dedicated community based activist, Boots was deeply involved with the Occupy Oakland movement and was one of the leaders of the activist group The Young Comrades. He is the author of the critically acclaimed collection of essays “Tell Homeland Security-We Are the Bomb.”
Synchronize: Re-Score Thomas Golubić Presents The Freshman
Tuesday, April 14, 10:15 PM
A special AIFVF collaboration with The Ohio University Music Industry Summit. Synchronize: Re-Score is the acclaimed live performance project created by four-time Emmy-nominated music supervisor Thomas Golubić. Best known for his landmark work on Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and Six Feet Under, Golubić brings the same obsessive attention to music and storytelling to Synchronize. For this special edition, Golubić turns his attention to Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman, the 1925 silent comedy masterpiece and one of cinema’s most beloved comedies. With all original dialogue intact and an entirely new soundtrack curated and mixed live on the spot, this is a one-of-a-kind experience at the intersection of music, film, and performance.