DISASSOCIATIVE PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS THE DEATH SPIRAL
Award-winning filmmaker M. Woods announces a multi-city film & book tour

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.

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.

UPCOMING TOUR DATES:

• April 2, Millennium Film Workshop, Brooklyn | Short Film Program
• April 3, NY Filmmaker’s Coop, New York | Movie: Dailies From Dumpland
• April 4, NY Filmmaker’s Coop, New York | Movie: Body Prop
• April 5, AgX Boston, Massachusetts | Movie: Body Prop
• April 9, Rhizome, Washington DC | Movie: Commodity Trading: Dies Irae
• April 13, Unda.M.93 Gallery, Chicago, Illinois | Movie: Body Prop
• April 17, Spacy, Dallas, Texas | Movie: Body Prop. Tickets: https://www.spacydtx.com/list/body-prop
• April 19, Spacy, Dallas, Texas | Event: Hand-Made Filmmaking Workshop
• April 23, Mills Folly Microcinema, Wisconsin | Movie: Body Prop
• April 25, Venue TBA, Colorado | Short Film Program 
• April 27, Counterpath Press, Denver | Movie: Body Prop
  With Book Release and Signing
• May 2, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art | Movie: Commodity Trading: Dies Irae

THE MOVIES
Dailies From Dumpland, barely screened in the United States, was described by renowned film critic Raphaël Bassan as “a dark and hallucinatory vision of our societies… that confront(s) the limits of cinema (on film or digital).” The feature film was previously distributed in Europe by the historic film organization, Collectif Jeune Cinema.

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.

Commodity Trading: Dies Irae, described by Lucia Ahrensdorf of Screen Slate as "an immersive and hallucinatory carnival”, has been touring worldwide since 2021, most recently at the Maysles Documentary Center and the East London Experimental Film Club. The recipient of a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Art and Lightcone Paris, Woods’ magnum opus is a genre-defying documentary of resistance wrapped in a nightmare chronicling the Numb Spiral, a metaphysical hell that Woods sets against the destructive first Trump presidency. Woods stars as a fictional version of themself, losing reality, and eventually collapsing into a swirling void of media overdrive.
https://www.screenslate.com/articles/commodity-trading-dies-irae-guillotine

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.

Visit www.thedigitalsickness.com for more information.