Screening
Join us at the FMC Screening Room (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) on Friday, April 4th, at 7pm, for a screening of M Woods' feature film BODY PROP.
Body Prop, mostly made of hand-processed super 8 and 16mm film, is a polemic against white supremacy, the dissolution of the Body Politic, and the desecration of the physical body by racist institutions. Influenced heavily by the work of Guy Debord, Marlon Riggs, Saul Levine, and Stan Brakhage, the movie is divided into five movements and first premiered as a short film at the prestigious Oberhausen International Short Film Festival in 2020.
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With support from the Foundation for Contemporary Art and Lightcone, Disassociative Productions presents THE DEATH SPIRAL TOUR 2025 featuring M Woods’ three critically-acclaimed feature films, Dailies From Dumpland, Body Prop, and Commodity Trading https://www.screenslate.com/articles/commodity-trading-dies-irae-guillotine . This independently-produced tour is dedicated to the spirit of David Lynch and other radical auteurs who created their own methods of distribution.
M. Woods (They/Them/He/Him) has been screening work internationally since 2007 while a student at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where they studied under filmmakers Lynne Sachs and Marco Williams. Originally mentored by Design Convergence Lab co-founder Mindy Faber, M is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and activist based in Chicago and the principal creative at DISASSOCIATIVE PRODUCTIONS www.thedigitalsickness.com
M was the recipient of the Erna Plachte Award at the University of Oxford (MFA 2021), and they have exhibited their work extensively for the past 15 years, including at IFFR, the Flaherty Seminar, The Royal Society of British Artists, The Oberhausen International Film Festival, the Bodleian Library, Prismatic Ground, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival, where they also served as special curator. They have received support from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Light Cone Paris, The Filmmaker’s Coop, and Collectif Jeune Cinema.
The DEATH SPIRAL TOUR 2025 is part of Woods’ continued resistance against the Trump administration, featuring radical films and post-screening discussions intended to activate an organized avant-garde against the regime.
Book Releases:
M. Woods will also be presenting two new self-published works of analog photography and poetry at every tour stop, capping off the tour with an official book launch at the vital hub for independent publishing, Counterpath Press, in Denver, Colorado.
[TEMPORARY] CUSTODY
In this heartbreaking collection of photography and poetry, M. Woods and their daughter, Annmarie, playfully explore the medium of polaroid photography. Their camera exposes the bittersweet ephemerality of “endless youth” and the persistence of trauma, capturing elusive and fleeting moments together. This temporal despair is punctuated by the buoyancy of childhood and the resonant pain of divorce.
By Annmarie & M. Woods
64 page full-color.
https://www.thedigitalsickness.com/the-digital-sickness-store/custody
THE ABRIDGED OXONIAE PHOTOGRAPHAE
In this abridged collection of experimental medium-format photography and poetry, The University of Oxford is rendered as an enigma, a never-ending puzzle of rusticated concrete and cobblestone, repeatedly re-resurrected as itself, in attempts to transcend its own physical presence and ascend to Holy Pleroma as a mythological ideal of a never-ending past whiteness. All of Academia and all pursuits of the unknown lead to despair, the rabbit holes of our curiosity, and the never-ending spiral of our own lack. The Oxoniae Photographae is an Imperial scab under which the intrinsic properties of violence hide within formal aesthetic boundaries, disguised as exoskeletal beauty while functioning as atrocity.
By M. Woods
64 page full-color.
https://www.thedigitalsickness.com/the-digital-sickness-store/the-abridged-oxoniae-photographae
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