Commodity Trading: Dies Irae, M Woods, 2022, 87 min.
Thu 24 Oct 2024 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Tickets - pay what you can (suggested £7 admission / £5 concession)
Booking: https://buytickets.at/eastlondonexperimentalfilmclub/1419328/r/email

Please join us for the next screening and meet-up of the East London Experimental Film Club at Good Shepherd Studios, a forum for encountering alternative cinema in all of its forms in a friendly and welcoming environment. This month, in the lead-up to the US presidential election, we will be watching the European premiere of American underground artist M Woods' Commodity Trading: Dies Irae (2022). A hallucinatory, nightmarish collage of 16mm film, animation, and archival footage, Commodity Trading engages with and embodies a sense of overwhelming and hypermediated numbness emerging after the election of Donald Trump in 2016.

Please note that the film contains accounts and representations of racism, violence, sex, and nudity. Parts of this work are based in actual events. Some parts contain fast edits and strobing imagery that may negatively impact those viewers with epilepsy and other light-sensitive disorders.

'Commodity Trading: Dies Irae evokes an immersive and hallucinatory carnival.' --Lucia Ahrensdorf, Screen Slate

'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’... which in the film is neither heaven nor hell but akin to a virtual insatiable void that devours authentic experience and meaning—a nauseous simulacrum, if you will, which is also representative of M. Woods’s painful research into our contemporary sub-human existence…' -- Nicky Ni, Cine-File Chicago

Event Details
Schedule:
7:00pm Doors Open
7:30pm-9:00pm Film Screening
9:00pm-10:00pm Post Screening Discussion and Social

Accessibility: Screening takes place in 1st floor auditorium with stair access. Accessible tickets are available--please email us at eastlondonexperimentalfilmclub@gmail.com if you have any access requirements so that we can facilitate.