Doppelgänger M Woods

Thedigitalsickness.com Fugue State, presented by Disassociative Productions and Agitate21C, is a festival of experimental, radical, political, and avant-garde cinema of all sorts, including expanded cinema and VR experiments. Festival Director, lead curator, and multidisciplinary artist M. Woods conceived of this festival as a direct attack at the gate-kept, corrupted, and cronyistic film festival circuit. Fugue State seeks to usurp institutions backed by blood money and corporate dollars, opposed to the not-for-profit industrial complex, offering a fully independent alternative where your work matters. We don’t have any premiere requirements, and we judge submissions based on their merit, not your connections or institutional roles. Fugue State embraces the convergence of video art, experimental film, and interactive design, encouraging new media, installation, photography, and expanded cinema/mixed-media performance entries. Open to art film, genre film, and any other type of cinema, so long as it transgresses the accepted and formulaic languages of the medium. Due to the success of Season 1, we have lowered the prices for our submissions. WE PROVIDE NEED-BASED SUBMISSION WAIVERS - 1 SUBMISSION ONLY* Email [email protected] to ask for a waiver. * We rely on submission fees because we watch every single movie and give deep consideration to all candidates. We use these fees to fund the entire festival, including venue costs, marketing, and festival production, so we deeply appreciate your contributions, but we also do not gate-keep. We understand the financial toll of making work in this economy, and we do not block entries. #artsubmission #experimentalfilm #filmsubmissions #callforentries #filmfestival

Aesha, I miss you so much. Rest in power. I love you always.

#WIP #pastel Disassociative Productions 2026 Thedigitalsickness.com

Melencolia 2: Destitution Signs by M Woods United States | 2025 | 7' 51" | Italian Premiere Melencolia 2 è una polemica invettiva in Super 8 contro l'etnografia, l'hipsterismo e la negazione dell'avanguardia a causa dell'infiltrazione di feccia insipida. * #adriatikino #experimentalfilm #analogfilm #filmfestival #shortfilm #foundfootage #filmisnotdead #fermo #lemarche

I have been very honored to share my short film Melencolia 2: destitution signs with multiple film festivals this year, including @filmdiarynyc @dresdner_schmalfilmtage @aifvf @nonamecinemasantafe and now more upcoming in Montreal @muff.514 , Italy @adriatikino ,down South (TBA), and somewhere else on the North East (TBA). This summer is going to be full, and I hope you share in the abundance and beautiful energy. I’m very grateful to my colleagues for all of the opportunities and the chance to share the screen. Melencolia is both a short film series and a feature film on which I’ve been working for 19 years. To help support my practice this summer, consider buying original art directly from my store thedigitalsickness.com

Selling the last 4 copies of this book. In need of funds for the summer break. Please visit thedigitalsickness.com/store or DM for direct link. [Temporary] Custody By Annmarie & M. Woods, 64 page full-color 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. #polaroid #artistbook #poetry #analog #photobook

Selling the last 4 copies of this book. In need of funds for the summer break. Please visit thedigitalsickness.com/store or DM for direct link. [Temporary] Custody By Annmarie & M. Woods, 64 page full-color 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. #polaroid #artistbook #poetry #analog #photobook

Selling the last 4 copies of this book. In need of funds for the summer break. Please visit thedigitalsickness.com/store or DM for direct link. [Temporary] Custody By Annmarie & M. Woods, 64 page full-color 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. #polaroid #artistbook #poetry #analog #photobook

FUGUE STATE SEASON 2 SUBMISSIONS OPEN Regular deadline APRIL 24, 2026 Thedigitalsickness.com Filmfreeway.com/fuguestate-1 Fugue State, presented by Disassociative Productions and Agitate21C, is a festival of experimental, radical, political, and avant-garde cinema of all sorts, including expanded cinema and VR experiments. Festival Director, lead curator, and multidisciplinary artist M. Woods conceived of this festival as a direct attack at the gate-kept, corrupted, and cronyistic film festival circuit. Fugue State seeks to usurp institutions backed by blood money and corporate dollars, opposed to the not-for-profit industrial complex, offering a fully independent alternative where your work matters. We don’t have any premiere requirements, and we judge submissions based on their merit, not your connections or institutional roles. Fugue State embraces the convergence of video art, experimental film, and interactive design, encouraging new media, installation, photography, and expanded cinema/mixed-media performance entries. Open to art film, genre film, and any other type of cinema, so long as it transgresses the accepted and formulaic languages of the medium. Due to the success of Season 1, we have lowered the prices for our submissions. WE PROVIDE NEED-BASED SUBMISSION WAIVERS - 1 SUBMISSION ONLY* Email [email protected] to ask for a waiver. * We rely on submission fees because we watch every single movie and give deep consideration to all candidates. We use these fees to fund the entire festival, including venue costs, marketing, and festival production, so we deeply appreciate your contributions, but we also do not gate-keep. We understand the financial toll of making work in this economy, and we do not block entries. #artsubmission #experimentalfilm #filmsubmissions #callforentries #filmfestival

FUGUE STATE SEASON 1 65 selected works Including dozens of shorts, 6 feature films, VR, computer games, installations, and two live performances Something stinks. Tired of film festivals that clearly run on cronyism? Tired of film festivals that charge you $25+ and don’t even watch your work? Tired of supporting bullshit not for profits and their rich institutional partners building bourgeois art out of avant-garde film? Tired of unethical gatekeepers? Join fugue state - send us your work - ask how you can help with season 2. We made Fugue State as an unapologetic fuck you to the film festival circuit and especially those who I’ve seen first hand take advantage of filmmakers, their time, and their money to prop up milquetoast programs of mediocre shit, poorly programmed, reflecting friend networks and popularity contests. I personally watched every submission. I wrote individual responses to those filmmakers who wanted more feedback. I programmed, marketed, and produced all the shows. The bureaucracy of film festivals is a waste, and NFP’s and institutions are taking advantage of this system. We should consider deeply the corruption before handing over any more money to orgs who have clearly demonstrated their self interest over the interests of the avant-garde they supposedly represent. We didn’t reject anyone based on “thematic limitations” or duration. No we kept making shows until we could include as much as possible. 17 programs including two art gallery shows Chicago, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, NYC, Los Angeles We programmed films multiple times during that run. Fugue State and our partner (our inspiration) @filmdiarynyc are committed to ethical programming. Who do you support? Thanks to the awesome venues: @elasticarts , @jazzgalleryarts , @several.references.to.feedback , @lacda_official , @filmcoop , @wavepoolartcenter , @parprojects , @swell_art_cafe , @comfort_film No funding, free waivers for anyone who asks, suggested donation ticketing / free admission at all events, no institutional backing, no volunteer workers, all independent and self-produced without the not for profit industrial complex. The only press we got was from Cincinnati.

That’s a wrap on FUGUE STATE season 1. @elasticarts - as always - is the place. Ben and Nicole, thank you. Thank you to all Fugue State artists from all our shows. Our Chicago crew - Drew, Curtis, the two Davids, Dom, and Maisha, your work moves people. Couldn’t have asked for a better crowd and vibe. Yall rocked it.

@elasticarts @dominic.bonelli