Film/Art collective
Disassociative Production is an art collective readying a batch of three feature films, over forty short films, video art installations, and other art in several medias this summer. The impetus for our movement lies in the recycling, destruction, and re-organization of the null signs of the culture; our movement is necessary in order to reassess the spectacle/spectator relationship of post-post-mo
dern society; to wield cinema and art as expressive media that not only stimulates consciousness but forces the spectator into self-reflexive thought; thought that reveals his or her relation to the hyper-panoptic spectacle that has blanketed reality. Disassociate. 2012
Screenings/Featured:
New Jersey International Film Festival
Arbeitsgemeinschaft für zeitgemässen Blickfang's Silentium Exit Show 2012
Montreal Underground Film Festival
Musiques Volantes presented by Seconda Voce http://www.seconda-voce.com/
Art Lab NYC
Curated by Trey LaTrash Happenings
L'Etranger Radio http://ltgpanik.wordpress.com/
Boomtown Film/Music Festival
Collective screenings at Manhattan Inn, Brooklyn
Pineapple Film Festival
and more...
https://www.sweetvoidcinema.com/tickets/p/body-prop Just a reminder I’ll be premiering this feature film craziness on Friday the 13th at Sweet Void! Come down if you’re in Chicago.
Friday, September 13th - 8:30 PM BODY PROP is an avant-garde essay film and attack against the ontology of white imperialism. Made of mostly hand-processed super 8 film, 16mm, and archival video. The piece, in five movements, takes on the subject of the Body as a prop, as a body politic, as a simu
Peripheries 2024Experimental Film and Video Festivalwww.peripheriesfestival.com Introducing The Opening Night Special Program curated by M Woods for AGITATE:21CPeripheries Experimental Film and Video Festival, created by lead programmer and festival director, Nicholas Swanton, is hosted by Sweet Void Cinema in Chicago with events throughout September, and main events taking place 9/19-9/29The Non-Event gets its name from the work of French theorist Jean Baudrillard; best described as the shadow of the real that emerges as a mediated double, like the repetitive massage of 9/11 on VHS. Quite distinct from the event itself, the non-event flirts with fourth-order simulacra, as a sign hiding its complete negation. Beginning with the legendary artist Aldo Tambellini’s newly rediscovered Black Video III (with a live soundtrack performed by the program’s curator, M. Woods) Agitate 21C’s The Non-Event opens up Peripheries Film Festival with force; an uncompromising program of space-altering film/video - transgressing and addressing the production of hyperreality. We are proud to present this screening by four key figures in the contemporary avant-garde, Aldo Tambellini, Nazlı Dinçel, Karissa Hahn, and Jason Halprin.Thursday, September 19 at 7:30PMDOORS OPEN AT 6:00PM FOR THE RECEPTION$10 - Tickets on sale Sept 1 at PeripheriesFestival.com BLACK VIDEO III by Aldo Tambellini | 24’ | w/ Live PerformanceInstructions on How to Make a Film by Nazlı Dinçel | 13’Please Step Out of the Frame by Karissa Hahn | 4’Imperfect Video by Jason Halprin | 20’TRT: 61’
Happy DNC next week 😉
I ain’t voting for no genocide but I will gladly crash a party.
Very proud to have my work published with Vagabond City Literary Journal
https://vagabondcitylit.com/2024/07/15/walk-on-by-by-m-woods/
New article in Screen Slate by Lucia Ahrensdorf on Comfort Film Presents: Commodity Trading: Dies Irae (2022) and Guillotine by Sonnie Wooden.
The 16mm footage in M. Woods’ feature-length experimental film, Commodity Trading: Dies Irae (2022, pictured above), includes the plum-brown rust of oil refineries, two n**e men wearing Trump masks inside a cluttered and cave-like apartment, and the neon lights of Rick Caruso’s The Americana mal...
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June 6, 2024
Multidisciplinary Artist M. Woods tours their 4th Feature Film, COMMODITY TRADING: DIES IRAE, alongside a retrospective of the work of Aldo Tambellini
(CHICAGO, IL 6/6/204) Artist and self-proclaimed media-drug manufacturer, M. Woods, has just announced new tour dates for their fourth, independently-produced feature film, COMMODITY TRADING: DIES IRAE. The tour will also feature Chicago-based filmmaker Sonnie Wooden’s short film GUILLOTINE at select stops.
Upcoming screenings are booked for Mills Folly Microcinema (June 26), Maysles Documentary Center Cinema (June 27), and Comfort Film (July 10). For tickets visit: Thedigitalsickness.com
In a review for Chicago-based Cine-File, art critic and curator, Nicky Ni, wrote: “COMMODITY TRADING is a strange autofictional thriller that loosely interweaves the hypnotic journeys of two protagonists, M. Woods and Joshua, attempting to enter what is called ‘The Numb Spiral’ through different entry points as they are haunted by Trump’s America. The Numb Spiral, which in the film is neither heaven nor hell but what akin to a virtual insatiable void that devours authentic experience and meaning—a nauseous simulacrum, if you will, is also representative of M. Woods’s painful research into our contemporary sub-human existence twisted and twirled by capitalism, corporate superpowers, socio-political atrocities, overflown information, internet intimacy, and surveillance.”
In addition to screenings of COMMODITY TRADING, Woods curated BLACK INFINITUDE, a retrospective screening of their mentor Aldo Tambellini’s work, featuring new VR pieces, paintings, and an installation inspired by Tambellini’s groundbreaking work. Named “One of the titans of 20th century art” by curator Stuart Comer, this is the first posthumous touring retrospective of Tambellini’s essential body of experimental film and video art.
This dazzling multimedia ensemble is an introduction to the uninitiated, featuring rare 16mm prints and a live performance to BLACK VIDEO 3. Aldo’s wife, Anna Salamone, worked with Woods to successfully stage the resulting retrospective screening and art installation that premiered in 2024 at Ann Arbor Film Festival. In May Woods brought BLACK INFINITUDE to Anthology Film Archives for another successful screening and performance thanks to the acclaimed Prismatic Ground, curated by Inney Prakash.
Chicago’s own Sonnie Wooden will be joining Woods at select tour dates, including the upcoming screening at Maysles Documentary Center Cinema. On his short film, Wooden writes, “GUILLOTINE is an intricate mosaic of American culture… it explores fear, paranoia, anticipatory grief, and expectations of Black lives. The film evokes the disjointedness of scrolling on social media—and that consistent inundation of chaotic, uncontrollable violence and beauty.”
Links:
Thedigitalsickness.com
www.aldotambellini.org
http://www.sonnieone.com
Homepage: Artist [M Woods] [Disassociative Productions], [Whitney Biennial 2024], [The Numb Spiral]. Award-winning [experimental filmmaker] distributed by Lightcone and [Collectif Jeune Cinema] [Agitate Avant-Garde] [Experimental Film] [Video Art] [Hip-Hop] [The Digital Sickness], and [Art for sale]
CHICAGO!!!
Get ready July 10 for another screening of Commodity Trading: Dies Irae
FREE ADMISSION
Thanks to
and curators Raul Benitez, Emily Perez, Mat Tapey, and Luna.
Comfort Film Presents:
Commodity Trading: Dies Irae (2022)
A bad trip that replicates the dissolution of the self/government/family/body within the solvent of a white supremacist hyperreal suspension. M. Woods attempts to enter the Numb Spiral through the Great Incision of Oxoniae, lulled into the digital sickness to be with his doppelgänger. After entering a portal in a we**am site, he becomes Abraxas, recklessly seeking completion through The Numb Spiral. Meanwhile, Joshua enters the Numb Spiral through 9DVR, a game platform installed at Culver City’s Westfield Shopping Center. The White Father haunts Joshua until Joshua decides to burn down the White Father’s house in righteous anger.
COMMODITY TRADING: DIES IRAE by Chicago-based multi-disciplinary artist, M. Woods, is a surrealist nightmare contorting through a hyperreal labyrinth of protests, ruins, and disturbing visions of end-state Capitalism. Using swirling 16mm film, M. takes the spectator on a trip to the Desert of the Real, where the United States plunges into a hallucinatory zone of pure nothingness. While this is M’s first solo screening in Chicago, their body of work, collectively entitled The Numb Spiral, has screened extensively for the past decade including at IFFR, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, and the Flaherty Seminar.
Media: Digital Projection
Runtime: 86 mins
There will be a short Q&A after the screening.
The DNC needs a replacement immediately. And many have asked me how this could happen. I don’t know. I don’t care. Sure. It is beyond unlikely. It probably won’t happen. I am powerless to create a solution but I’m not going to be quiet about gross injustice either.
I’ve been repeating the following from Malcolm X: Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. This was his argument at the Oxford Union, a position that would become revelatory of the apathy of the next half century. Because in times of gross injustice, extreme methods are not only virtuous, but necessary to dissimulation and disassociation. In apathy and comfortable fear, the United States’ upper middle class have allowed their comfort to blossom into abhorrent inequality and apathy towards racist Capitalist Necropolitics.
It is not the fault of those opposed to genocide that Biden is an awful human and undeserving of the vote and that you might not care or know about the Sabra and Shatila Massacres during the 1982 Lebanon War perpetuated by Ariel Sharon who would become prime minister of Israel, and who, with Benjamin Netanyahu, and the help of Ehud Olmert - who rained down white phosphorous, dismantle the agreements made by Rabin before he was assassinated by a hateful Netanyahu supporter.
Israeli PM Rabin called for two states and no more settlements. He won a Nobel Prize with Arafat and he was murdered for it; Rabin was caricatured as a N**i, and his effigy burned in full view of Netanyahu. Rabin’s own widow blamed Netanyahu for the murder. Netanyahu is attempting to escape conviction for unrelated corruption crimes the same way as Trump, and he is using a genocide to keep power and you stay silent? This has nothing to do with anti-semitism. This has everything to do with racism against the Palestinian people and an unwillingness to view the world and conflict in context.
For the privileged, voting does not take much effort. The illusory model of voting as the sole interaction and ultimate act of any citizen is a dereliction of the terms of one’s social contract. Even the reliance on “get the vote out” efforts is deeply reductive. The exchange of ideas no longer possible, and no longer concerned for hearts and minds, the next step for all systems of power is fear. A social contract must be the foundation of any representative democracy of any republic (and humanity).
If we are to live together we cannot vote for the wanton slaughter of our fellow humanity, even in the face of a threat like Donald Trump. Voting for continued genocide does not wash easily. Having been effectively bullied into voting for the Dems my whole life, I am casting my vote for Bernie Sanders, who, but for the fraudulent actions of the DNC, was the actual democratic presidential nominee in 2016 and 2020. (Ask Donna Brazile and CC all other nominees in 2020 in the Biden White House.) If you care about human rights and aren’t conned by this wicked government I hope you’ll consider writing in Bernie Sanders or whoever else. I was considering Bowser or Waluigi as they are the better evils. This current government is more murderous than the last. Remember that.
Condition is Used. Great condition lens.
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Nothingscapes (and the Inherent Politics of Texture) | DAILIES FROM DUMPLAND 6 | SILENT VERSION
2007-2024 | Digitized Super-8 | 13 mins
A 4-Channel work intended for installation and theatrical screening. This is a silent screener with 4 channels presented in a single HD channel.
Nothingscapes is also presented with a live soundtrack performed by M. Woods (a recorded sound version is also available.)
This work is also intended to be looped on four walls in a room with either recorded or live sound. A piece of the DAILIES FROM DUMPLAND installation - Part 1 of THE NUMB SPIRAL.
www.thedigitalsickness.com
Contact [email protected] for more information or to schedule a performance/exhibition.
Nothingscapes (and the Inherent Politics of Texture) | DAILIES FROM DUMPLAND 6 | SILENT VERSION 2007-2024 | Digitized Super-8 | 13 mins A 4-Channel work intended…
ONION CITY 34
Sending in Onion City Exquisite Co**se 6!!! It’s our friend Edgar Jorge-Baralt featuring Christina Nguyen. Sound by .
And as the exquisite co**se continues on its journey, we invite you to:
The 34th ONION CITY EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL (4/4-4/14)
SEE https://www.onioncityfilmfest.org/2024programs FOR MORE INFO
OnionCityFilmFest.Org for Tickets or see our LinkTree
Edgar Jorge Baralt Doppelgänger M Woods
Some VR views from Aldo Tambellini - BLACK VR
An immersive work of art by Aldo Tambellini (with the assistance of M Woods Doppelgänger M Woods)
Presented by Ann Arbor Film Festival
exhibition to be presented in the State Theater
Special screening March 28
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GUILLOTINE by Sonnie Wooden | March 15 at 7PM
TICKETS: chicagofilmmakers.org/upcoming-screenings-and-events/commodity-trading
With COMMODITY TRADING by M. Woods
Review by Cenìnye Harris | Edited by M. Woods
“…The hyperrealism that Sonnie Wooden depicts is archival, experiential, and at times, a mockery of the real, a flattening or oversimplifying that some may find off-putting if it were not for Sonnie’s ability to use the cinematic artifice as a means of satire and horror. Wooden’s own authorship is in the GUILLOTINE: the splicer and that which doles at justice.
The GUILLOTINE, in that sense, is a form of retribution, and sometimes, of a need for revenge against an institution. Wooden’s GUILLOTINE splices together these awful and sardonic truths of a human hive mind steeped in narcissism and a lack of self-consciousness, attempting to surpass irony while depicting the midst of racist nihilism. And in this critique of distinctly USA-cultivated horror and kitsch, Wooden is not making any simple statements, or general attacks. Instead, his erudite juxtaposition of these elements invites a post-screening conversation. There is no answer. The figure of Kanye appears and explains that he is speechless and unable to find resolve. GUILLOTINE acknowledges this lack and does not shy away from keeping its audience within the ambiguities of the emptiness in our reflections and the media we use to reflect.”
Join us for a post-screening conversation moderated by Grace K. Schuler.
Homepage: Artist [M Woods] [Disassociative Productions], [Whitney Biennial 2024], [The Numb Spiral]. Award-winning [experimental filmmaker] distributed by Lightcone and [Collectif Jeune Cinema] [Agitate Avant-Garde] [Experimental Film] [Video Art] [Hip-Hop] [The Digital Sickness], and [Art for sale]
FEBRUARY 16 & 17 at the Chicago Filmmakers Firehouse Cinema:
Two nights where expanded cinema, live music, stop-motion surrealism, experimental film, and Chicago performance art history combine!
DIRECT LINK: https://chicagofilmmakers.org/upcoming-screenings-and-events/artoutoftime
Chicago Filmmakers is excited to present, another 50th Anniversary special program, ART OUT OF TIME; curated by Robert Metrick ( ) celebrating Chicago Filmmakers’ PerforMedia programming. This groundbreaking combination of , , and originated as “Time Arts” series and reminds us a lot of the work of and previous multimedia happenings like the late Aldo Tambellini’s Black Gate performance and media space .
Included in this program are: EPHEMERAL ORPHANAGE [TRAILER IN POST], an award winning animation by Lisa Barcy; performances by Barrie Cole, Heather Lindahl, and Terry Sofianos Wohlgenant (with Solomon Lindenburg and Arlo Wohlgenant); a reading by Steven L. Jones from his new book, MURDER BALLADS, OLD AND NEW; classical music works by Bach, Tchaikovsky and Popper performed by cellist Clara Dodge, and HERE, a video by Robert Metrick.
By bringing together artists across an eclectic spectrum of genres and disciplines, including film, video, music, performance art/theater, and poetry — converged or in tandem, this historic series helped to bring a new, broader audience to Chicago Filmmakers.
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COMMODITY TRADING: DIES IRAE by M. Woods | 3/15 @ 7PM CST
For tickets, visit: www.chicagofilmmakers.org/upcoming-screenings-and-events/commodity-trading Chicago Filmmakers
M. Woods’ COMMODITY TRADING: DIES IRAE is a surrealist nightmare wrapped in a documentary chronicling the void that emerged with the election of Donald Trump. The movie weaves a narrative through political hells, using 16mm film, mixed media digital experimentation, and archival footage to paint a hallucinatory landscape of Southern California’s break from reality.
M. Woods will appear in-person for a post-screening conversation.
*COMMODITY TRADING (USA, 2022)
DIRECTOR: M. Woods
WRITERS: M. Woods with Josh Gray
PRODUCERS: M. Woods, Cory Mack, Josh Gray
STARRING: M. Woods, Josh Gray, Lauren Paige, and Annmarie Woods
Total Run Time: 80 mins
*CHICAGO PREMIERE
A bad trip that replicates the dissolution of the self/government/family/body within the solvent of a white supremacist hyperreal suspension. M. Woods attempts to enter the Numb Spiral through the Great Incision of Oxoniae, lulled into the digital sickness to be with his doppelganger. After entering a portal in a we**am site, he becomes Abraxas, recklessly seeking completion through The Numb Spiral. Meanwhile, Joshua enters the Numb Spiral through 9DVR, a game platform installed at Culver City’s Westfield Shopping Center. The White Father haunts Joshua until Joshua decides to burn down the White Father’s house in righteous anger.
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Peripheries 2024Experimental Film and Video Festivalwww.peripheriesfestival.com Introducing The Opening Night Special Program curated by M Woods for AGITATE:21CPeripheries Experimental Film and Video Festival, created by lead programmer and festival director, Nicholas Swanton, is hosted by Sweet Void Cinema @sweetvoidcinema in Chicago with events throughout September, and main events taking place 9/19-9/29The Non-Event gets its name from the work of French theorist Jean Baudrillard; best described as the shadow of the real that emerges as a mediated double, like the repetitive massage of 9/11 on VHS. Quite distinct from the event itself, the non-event flirts with fourth-order simulacra, as a sign hiding its complete negation. Beginning with the legendary artist Aldo Tambellini’s newly rediscovered Black Video III (with a live soundtrack performed by the program’s curator, M. Woods) Agitate 21C’s The Non-Event opens up Peripheries Film Festival with force; an uncompromising program of space-altering film/video - transgressing and addressing the production of hyperreality. We are proud to present this screening by four key figures in the contemporary avant-garde, Aldo Tambellini, Nazlı Dinçel, Karissa Hahn, and Jason Halprin.Thursday, September 19 at 7:30PMDOORS OPEN AT 6:00PM FOR THE RECEPTION$10 - Tickets on sale Sept 1 at PeripheriesFestival.com BLACK VIDEO III by Aldo Tambellini | 24’ | w/ Live PerformanceInstructions on How to Make a Film by Nazlı Dinçel | 13’Please Step Out of the Frame by Karissa Hahn | 4’Imperfect Video by Jason Halprin | 20’TRT: 61’ #filmfestival #experimentalfilm #filmfestival #videoart #avantgarde #movies #artevents #chicagofilm #chicagofilmfestival #chicagoevents #videoart #performanceart #analog #16mm #vhs #analogvideo #glitch #distortion #analogue #analogfilm #upcomingevents #filmscreening #undergroundfilm #indiefilm #indie #chicago @aldotambelliniartfoundation @nazlidincel @karissahahn____ @jihalprin
ONION CITY 34 Sending in Onion City Exquisite Corpse 6!!! It’s our friend Edgar Jorge-Baralt featuring Christina Nguyen. Sound by @numbspiral. And as the exquisite corpse continues on its journey, we invite you to: The 34th ONION CITY EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL (4/4-4/14) SEE https://www.onioncityfilmfest.org/2024programs FOR MORE INFO OnionCityFilmFest.Org for Tickets or see our LinkTree #experimentalfilmmaker #experimentalfilm #avantgarde #experimental #experimentalart #experimentalfilm #experimentalvideo #filmfestival #chicago #chicagofilm #chicagofilmmakers #upcomingscreenings #screenings #underground #filmfestival #filmfestivals #filmfest #competition #artcompetition Edgar Jorge Baralt Doppelgänger M Woods #christinacnguyen
@followers GUILLOTINE by Sonnie Wooden @sonniewooden | March 15 at 7PM TICKETS: chicagofilmmakers.org/upcoming-screenings-and-events/commodity-trading With COMMODITY TRADING by M. Woods Review by Cenìnye Harris @ceninye | Edited by M. Woods @numbspiral “…The hyperrealism that Sonnie Wooden depicts is archival, experiential, and at times, a mockery of the real, a flattening or oversimplifying that some may find off-putting if it were not for Sonnie’s ability to use the cinematic artifice as a means of satire and horror. Wooden’s own authorship is in the GUILLOTINE: the splicer and that which doles at justice. The GUILLOTINE, in that sense, is a form of retribution, and sometimes, of a need for revenge against an institution. Wooden’s GUILLOTINE splices together these awful and sardonic truths of a human hive mind steeped in narcissism and a lack of self-consciousness, attempting to surpass irony while depicting the midst of racist nihilism. And in this critique of distinctly USA-cultivated horror and kitsch, Wooden is not making any simple statements, or general attacks. Instead, his erudite juxtaposition of these elements invites a post-screening conversation. There is no answer. The figure of Kanye appears and explains that he is speechless and unable to find resolve. GUILLOTINE acknowledges this lack and does not shy away from keeping its audience within the ambiguities of the emptiness in our reflections and the media we use to reflect.” Join us for a post-screening conversation moderated by Grace K. Schuler. @grcekschuler #filmmakers #Chicagoarts #chicagoevents #chicagofilmmakers #filmmaker #shortfilm #featurefilm #filmpremiere #filmfestival #onioncity #experimentalfilm #experimentalfilmmaker #avantgarde #documentary #documentaryshort #chicagofilms #Chicagofilm #independentfilm #indie #artreview #filmreview #ShortFilms #sonniewooden #numbspiral #contemporaryart #videoart #contemporaryvideo #contemporaryartist #multidisciplinary #chicagolive
FEBRUARY 16 & 17 at the Chicago Filmmakers Firehouse Cinema: Two nights where expanded cinema, live music, stop-motion surrealism, experimental film, and Chicago performance art history combine! DIRECT LINK: https://chicagofilmmakers.org/upcoming-screenings-and-events/artoutoftime Chicago Filmmakers is excited to present, another 50th Anniversary special program, ART OUT OF TIME; curated by Robert Metrick ( @rrrmetrrrick ) celebrating Chicago Filmmakers’ PerforMedia programming. This groundbreaking combination of #performanceart , #music , and #cinema originated as “Time Arts” series and reminds us a lot of the work of @VASTLAB and previous multimedia happenings like the late Aldo Tambellini’s Black Gate performance and media space @blackisaldo. Included in this program are: EPHEMERAL ORPHANAGE [TRAILER IN POST], an award winning animation by Lisa Barcy; performances by Barrie Cole, Heather Lindahl, and Terry Sofianos Wohlgenant (with Solomon Lindenburg and Arlo Wohlgenant); a reading by Steven L. Jones from his new book, MURDER BALLADS, OLD AND NEW; classical music works by Bach, Tchaikovsky and Popper performed by cellist Clara Dodge, and HERE, a video by Robert Metrick. By bringing together artists across an eclectic spectrum of genres and disciplines, including film, video, music, performance art/theater, and poetry — converged or in tandem, this historic series helped to bring a new, broader audience to Chicago Filmmakers. INSTA HANDLES: @barriecole.96 @rrrmetrrrick @LBarcy @clara_Dodge @onioncityfilmfest #performance #liveevents #livemusic #chicagoevents #chicagomusic #chicagofilmmakers #chicago #Chicagofilm #chifilm #Chicagoarts #chicagoartscene #chicagofilmscene #chicagofilmhistory #film #expandedcinema #installationart #video #analog #surrealism #livescore #experimentalfilm #experimentalmusic
COMMODITY TRADING: DIES IRAE by M. Woods | 3/15 @ 7PM CST For tickets, visit: www.chicagofilmmakers.org/upcoming-screenings-and-events/commodity-trading Chicago Filmmakers M. Woods’ COMMODITY TRADING: DIES IRAE is a surrealist nightmare wrapped in a documentary chronicling the void that emerged with the election of Donald Trump. The movie weaves a narrative through political hells, using 16mm film, mixed media digital experimentation, and archival footage to paint a hallucinatory landscape of Southern California’s break from reality. M. Woods @numbspiral will appear in-person for a post-screening conversation. *COMMODITY TRADING (USA, 2022) DIRECTOR: M. Woods WRITERS: M. Woods with Josh Gray PRODUCERS: M. Woods, Cory Mack, Josh Gray STARRING: M. Woods, Josh Gray, Lauren Paige, and Annmarie Woods Total Run Time: 80 mins *CHICAGO PREMIERE A bad trip that replicates the dissolution of the self/government/family/body within the solvent of a white supremacist hyperreal suspension. M. Woods attempts to enter the Numb Spiral through the Great Incision of Oxoniae, lulled into the digital sickness to be with his doppelganger. After entering a portal in a webcam site, he becomes Abraxas, recklessly seeking completion through The Numb Spiral. Meanwhile, Joshua enters the Numb Spiral through 9DVR, a game platform installed at Culver City’s Westfield Shopping Center. The White Father haunts Joshua until Joshua decides to burn down the White Father’s house in righteous anger. #experimentalfilm #experimental #filmfestivals #filmfestival #avantgarde #undergroundfilm #HorrorMovie #indiefilm #documentary #mwoods #numbspiral #disassociativeproductions #stuckinthe90s #thedigitalsickness #experimentalfilmmaker #videoart #installationart #artfilm #arthouse #underground #DIYCinema #diyfilm @followers
Chicago Filmmakers @followers DEADLINES for the Onion City Experimental Film Festival Check out the new trailer by Doppelgänger M Woods REGULAR DEADLINE - 12/15/23 LATE DEADLINE - 1/18/24 Submit at www.filmfreeway.com/onioncityff Searching for cutting-edge media of many sorts, including: spells and incantations veils and physical worlds emotive proximity and disassociative distance significance and loss. A showcase of: the uncanny, immanent, and empty, disfigurative and delicate, essential and expendable, punk or posed, militant or stoic, ugly or delicious. Please send works that… …dissimulate, attack, peel, percolate, transgress, sublimate, submerge… immerse and echo. In short: Accepting all experimental film / video. Now open at www.filmfreeway.com/onioncityff Website: https://www.onioncityfilmfest.org A (radical/avant-garde/underground) production of @chicagofilmmakers Chicago Filmmakers is now celebrating 50 years serving Filmmakers and Film Lovers in The Chicago and international film community. Please visit ChicagoFilmmakers.Org and make a donation to expand our community resources and amazing programming. #chicagofilmmakers #experimentalfilmmaker #chicagofilmmakers #undergroundfilm #independentfilm #indiefilm #chicagofilmscene #filmmaker #videoart #avantgarde #extremecinema #Chicagofilm #arthouse #queercinema #filmfestival #callforsubmissions #opencall #experimental #weirdfilm #absurd #ShortFilms #OnionCity #OnionCity2024 Please enjoy the appropriately funky first part of Onion City Exquisite Corpse Trailer https://vimeo.com/890400310 PART 1: Explicit Corps by M. Woods | Music by The Digital Sickness www.thedigitalsickness.com
CHECK OUT THE NEW SIZZLE TRAILER AND REELING’S FULL FILM SCHEDULE It's finally here! The complete film schedule is now available for Reeling: The 41st Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival! Visit www.reelingfilmfest.org to browse the films, buy passes and tickets, and get more information about special events and screenings. Join us for two weeks of powerful filmmaking with over 100 films from LGBTQ+ filmmakers all over the world. We can't wait to see you at the theater. Reeling runs September 21st - October 8th. We love the newly unveiled poster art by Nadia Stiegman https://stiegman.myportfolio.com/ Special thanks to Alea Rodriguez for editing this reel! ReelingFilmFest.Org #reeling2023 #chicagofilmmakers #chicagofilmmaker #chicagofilm #queerfilms #queerfilmfestival #queerfilmmakers #queerfilm #lgbtqpride #lgbtqfilm #Queerfilm #queerfilmmakers #transpride #chicagofilm #chicagofilmmakers #lgbtqiacommunity #chicagoarts #chicagoartscene #reelingfilmfestival #filmfestival #callforentries #chicagopride #pride #queerart #queerartist
THIS SATURDAY 8/12 at 7PM, the return of Chicago Seen, produced by @chicagofilmmakers , brings together local, independent Chicago filmmakers for a new collection showcasing original and exhilarating cinematic art from the Chicago independent & DIY film communities. ChicagoFilmmakers.Org/Upcoming-Screenings-And-Events/Seen16 Featuring the work of Aidan Karstadt, Andrew Paul Davis, M. Woods 😉, George Ellzey Jr., Jejoon Park, Jesse Rothenberg and Zo Zosack, Josh Weissbach, Juli Del Prete, and Nick Schoenbrodt. Programmed under the supervision of Grace K. Schuler, former programming intern at Chicago Filmmakers, this initiative by Chicago Filmmakers gives the interns and volunteers an opportunity to fully program and screen work as a team - the incomparable Grace K Schuler, Sofia Migaly, Bella Miller, Jacob Shevitz, McGuire Price, Rowan Messimen, Brendan Myers, and Mariam Atallah. Trailer edited by Bella Miller Get your tickets at ChicagoFilmmakers.Org and support local and independent cinema Home of @reelingfilmfest @onioncityfilmfest Chicago Filmmakers For Filmmakers, For Film Lovers, For Community For 50 Years #chicagofilmmakers #experimentalfilm #experimentalfilmmakers #undergroundfilm #independentfilm #DIYcinema #Chicagoarts #Chicagofilm #LGBTQfilm #arthousefilm #animation #documentary #chicagoevents #chicagoscreenings #animatedshort #animatedshortfilms #artisttalks #Localfilmmakers #ShortFilms #supportlocalarts
This was before we were eaten. Thanks for the film set #bottletreeranch #numbspiral
The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within #Numbspiral broken #broadcast #satellite cancer #bottletreeranch
Wuh Happund? #bottletreeranch somewhere past #barstow Annmarie conducts broken machines
Scooby doo y’all Scooby-Dooby-Doo y’all #Numbspiral #theorderofthenumbspiral #drugsfree
$$$ WTF bruh bruh $$$ we making #dollars - like DPMD - in 2018.
The fish are homeless Some iPhone pics and #instavideo for Commodity Trading #videoart #experimentalfilm #experimentalfilmmaker #instavid #antelopevalley #california outside #losangeles #nofilter
Some iPhone pics and #instavideo for Commodity Trading #videoart #experimentalfilm #experimentalfilmmaker #instavid #antelopevalley #california outside #losangeles #nofilter
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