Clown Show Prison, in partnership with the Green Point Film Festival, presents M Woods in person.
Body Prop is an avant-garde essay film and attack against the ontology of white imperialism. Made of mostly hand-processed super 8 film - the rejected pieces of film used in other pieces of The Numb Spiral. The piece, in five movements, takes on the subject of the Body as a prop, as a body politic, as a simulation, and as a necropolitical expense, creating a “Cadaver Decomposition Island” of discarded scraps of Super 8 and archival material reveal the shadow of US nihilism within the advanced stage of hyperreality.
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$15 Suggested Donations at the door (see ticket link below)
259 Green Street, Brooklyn, NYC
7PM w/ poetry reading
As described by critic Maxwell Courtright in Tone Madison: “Body Prop is an immovable object to be reckoned with, and makes a strong case that all revolutionary art in the present day must be.” https://tonemadison.com/articles/dense-digital-palettes-of-body-prop-con...
Combining original manifestoes (in the style of Situationism) with excerpts of Jean Baudrillard’s A System of Objects, Sartre’s Being and Nothingness and other treatises on phenomenological existentialism, Biblical passages from Genesis and Ecclesiastes, impeachment transcripts, Beloved by Toni Morrison, the speeches of Malcolm X, YouTube news archives, and dozens of other texts in conversation in a tumult of signs, oscillating in a trance between attempting to situate within and disassociate from the Body Prop. The cinema itself is a Body Prop - simultaneously full and devoid of feeling and sensory. Featuring an original score composed of Hip-Hop beats and experimental soundscapes created by director M Woods.
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.
M will also be reading from their self published collections of poetry, which will be on sale at the event and through Clown Show Prison’s beautifully curated concept bookstore gallery. Get your copy today at Clown Show Prison in Brooklyn.