Madsen Minax

    Filmmaker - Director/Co-Producer, Editor
    Musician - Upright Bass, Vocals

 

  

 

  Madsen Minax is a non profit slinger, bass slapping swinger, norm f***ing humdinger who will   pull your finger and laugh. He is also a multi-media artist/hellraiser and curator currently    living, working, playing and crying in Chicago, IL.

Madsen’s work is primarily in time-based arts, including sound/music and film/video, but when he’s not making films, writing songs, or singing and playing bass in the band/collective Actor Slash Model, he survives in the real world by editing educational films, serving coffee drinks and giving mediocre tattoos out of his basement. He was trained as a classical pianist from age 4, earned his BFA in film and sound at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and trained in classical quartet composition at Hogeschool voor Muziek en Technologie in Utrectht, The Netherlands.

With the Feder/Minax/Rosskam/Strikeback quartet-come-fiasco Madsen co-curates bi-monthly screenings as Threat Level Queer Shorts, bringing queer films and videos to exhibition space and building a fresh and necessary queer artists' space in Chicago.

As a musician Madsen has toured the country several times over in Actor Slash Model and His films have screened in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Berlin, Germany, Copenhagen, Denmark, Sydney and Perth, Australia. He loves to deconstruct, smash, and blow-up boundaries before rebuilding them from scratch, and likes his films the way he likes his sex; edgy, rambunctious, and unsettling.

 

 

 

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