Directing

M. Woods

Born

1988-08-24 (38)

Place of birth

New York City

Known for

Directing

Credits

30 titles

Michael Woods (born 1988, NYC) is a Latino media terrorist working in avant-garde film, video art, photography, collage, sound design, performance, curation, installation, music composition, and immersive media. Woods' work chronicles the spread of the Numb Spiral, the results of a digital sickness that manifests itself in the codification and symbolic negation of being.

Known for

No artwork available
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Uncut 16mm with in-camera quadruple exposure - a print will be made for Analog exhibition as well as digital.

Press [FIRE] to Start!

2018

Post-Panoptic Gazing poster
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There is a syrup tasting carnivorous urge to conquer sexual ineptitude in overbearing glances and center the camera in the infinite void of consensual reflections of nothingness. But you will dance unlike you have ever danced before, with threads of everything you know, repackaged in metastatic digital packets of data rapidly going nowhere, blinking quickly into things outside the periphery of consciousness and knowledge, towards digital sickness that thirsts for absolution. Not even the rabid gnashing of your teeth can escape the banal. Better to grin at the costumes floating about and accept the perpetual post-Panoptic suspension.

Post-Panoptic Gazing

2015

No artwork available
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STUCK IN THE 90's is the 5th feature film by M. Woods, the culmination of the Stuck in the 90's video art webisodic which has been released through Full Spectrum Features as part of their acclaimed CYBERSLIME series. Starring "The Prom Date Fuck", this terrible piece of shit is a nightmare of internet sludge, reveling in its own grotesque nihilism, dripping in micro plastics and auto-erotic lust. A nightmare of hyperreal proportions.

Stuck in the 90s

2026

Commodity Trading: Dies Irae poster
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A void in time-space is opens as bitter spirits circle one another searching for the Numb Spiral. The double of reality knocks the USA off the map.

Commodity Trading: Dies Irae

2023

No artwork available
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A scene from an upcoming feature film.

A Day in a Place

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No artwork available
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M. Woods, a mentee of Aldo Tambellini, conducted the only interview with him in virtual reality. This interview has been expanded to include an immersive view of some of Tambellini’s work as well as a VR experience influenced by Tambellini. Included in this installation is a stand-alone VR headset where the participant can witness one of the final interviews with Tambellini as conducted and filmed by M. Woods.

Tambellini: Communications from Other Space

2024

Film credits

Behind the camera

No artwork available
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Uncut 16mm with in-camera quadruple exposure - a print will be made for Analog exhibition as well as digital.

Press [FIRE] to Start!

2018

Post-Panoptic Gazing poster
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There is a syrup tasting carnivorous urge to conquer sexual ineptitude in overbearing glances and center the camera in the infinite void of consensual reflections of nothingness. But you will dance unlike you have ever danced before, with threads of everything you know, repackaged in metastatic digital packets of data rapidly going nowhere, blinking quickly into things outside the periphery of consciousness and knowledge, towards digital sickness that thirsts for absolution. Not even the rabid gnashing of your teeth can escape the banal. Better to grin at the costumes floating about and accept the perpetual post-Panoptic suspension.

Post-Panoptic Gazing

2015

No artwork available
NR

STUCK IN THE 90's is the 5th feature film by M. Woods, the culmination of the Stuck in the 90's video art webisodic which has been released through Full Spectrum Features as part of their acclaimed CYBERSLIME series. Starring "The Prom Date Fuck", this terrible piece of shit is a nightmare of internet sludge, reveling in its own grotesque nihilism, dripping in micro plastics and auto-erotic lust. A nightmare of hyperreal proportions.

Stuck in the 90s

2026

Commodity Trading: Dies Irae poster
NR

A void in time-space is opens as bitter spirits circle one another searching for the Numb Spiral. The double of reality knocks the USA off the map.

Commodity Trading: Dies Irae

2023

No artwork available
NR

A scene from an upcoming feature film.

A Day in a Place

—

No artwork available
NR

M. Woods, a mentee of Aldo Tambellini, conducted the only interview with him in virtual reality. This interview has been expanded to include an immersive view of some of Tambellini’s work as well as a VR experience influenced by Tambellini. Included in this installation is a stand-alone VR headset where the participant can witness one of the final interviews with Tambellini as conducted and filmed by M. Woods.

Tambellini: Communications from Other Space

2024

NARC poster
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Video for Glass Teeth

NARC

2011

Melencolia 2: Destitution Signs poster
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A nostalgic retread through the 4th plateau of New York City followed by a short polemic against ethnography and hipsters. Shot between 2006 and 2025

Melencolia 2: Destitution Signs

2026

Mockingbird poster
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Music video for Chestnut

Mockingbird

2021

Melencolia 1: The End of the Alphabet poster
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A sadness rolls over me as I gaze into the entrails of this pandora's box and my shadow cranks a lost appendage for the sake of ontological tangents and bewitched spaces. I want you to witness The Hallucinatory Zone of Neo-Liberal death hounds and lost gazes that expand and contract time.

Melencolia 1: The End of the Alphabet

2023

For Dies Irae poster
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A floundering figure or form of nothing born and gasping before bludgeoned by the carpet, pulled swiftly and quickly out before the floor gets bolted down. Just torn flesh, not flesh, but fish flakes and canned meat. Mickey Mouse is eying his fortune in American hell.

For Dies Irae

2017

Diz Knee Wurld poster
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A reflection on media, the hyperreal, the human form, and hipster banality.

Diz Knee Wurld

2012

Commodity Trading (Part 2 of 3 ?): December 19th poster
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A void in time-space is opened as bitter spirits circle one another searching for the Numb Spiral. The double of reality knocks the USA off the map.

Commodity Trading (Part 2 of 3 ?): December 19th

2021

No artwork available
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A filthy fucking video with Kittie Porn and Zac Efron/Prom Date Fuck sex.

Stuck in the 90’s Episode -1: Zac Efron Sex Tape

2016

Dailies From Dumpland Part 1 & 2 poster
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A digital sickness creeps into all organic processes and hopelessly sheds its meat. You take your marching orders from a fascist dump.

Dailies From Dumpland Part 1 & 2

2017

Dailies from Dumpland poster
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Welcome to Dumpland, the junkyard land, unbelievable mess, where dreams and nightmares are right next to each other, just like wealth and poverty. Here, superficiality overcomes necessities, and life-inspirations only exist on screen or glossy paper. The souls are essentially turned towards the Dollar God, provoking envious vertigo, jealousy and frustrations. In a stream of images accumulated on a daily basis, M. Woods transcribes the symptoms of a frail society. If the “numb spiral” is a disease, “Dailies from Dumpland” and its endless visual flow might just be the remedy.

Dailies from Dumpland

2018

Dailies From Dumpland Part 3 poster
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Columbus Circle spiraling down stacks of hell, a fucking urine-soaked bastard and his corporate media frenemies across the street. A deviation, following, touching "here" and craving an empty sex and catacylsmic disorder. Revolutions revolutions revolutions. Just saying, Columbus Circle ain't far from Williamsburg, hipster youth.

Dailies From Dumpland Part 3

2017

No artwork available
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A 4-Channel work intended for installation and theatrical screening. Presented here in its silent version. The work is also presented with a live soundtrack performed by M. Woods and a recorded 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.

Nothingscapes and the Inherent Politics of Texture

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No artwork available
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Nothing is not; on behalf of human rot, this not’s a mental map. You can stroll through with eyes ablaze by scorching sun that spreads the waves of city smog, LED light fog, and Christmas luminescence on dead presidents with no essence. Just fluorescence, as the gas builds up, and the homeless walk through a fascist dump.

Window Shoppin (in the fall of Babylon)

2018

Surr-Urban-ism poster
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mechanical reproduction in the form of consciousness aimed at its own reflection in the revelation of the mechanical constructs of society - now saturated with nihil information circulating without meaning. A degenerative environment of flux and representational chaos achieving informational metastasis after being inscribed onto recording material. Now digital. Super-8. In-Camera edit. Stands alone but also repurposed in exodusMelancholia.

Surr-Urban-ism

2011

Body Prop - Movement 1 [destroyed be forever all the bonds of nature] poster
4.5

The vengeance of Hell boils in my heart / In your cold room / The silence that makes you mine / Fall, stars / She sat around and counted them all a million times / My name no one will know / And if my love were in vain / Oh God, I would want to die! / She was the roughest, toughest frail / In your cold room look at the trembling stars / I am pining, I am tormented! / but my mystery is closed in me / Have pity / I’ll win at dawn and we must alas die / Have pity / Death and despair flame about me

Body Prop - Movement 1 [destroyed be forever all the bonds of nature]

2020

Commodity Trading Part 1 of 3 (Election Day) poster
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Ahem *clears throat* FUCK TRUMP AND FUCK WHITE PEOPLE

Commodity Trading Part 1 of 3 (Election Day)

2017

Fractal Death 4: Talk about Destruction You Can Count Me In poster
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Nothingness is a concept of absolute absence, or absolute nullity. It is directly and inextricably linked to the notion of being.

Fractal Death 4: Talk about Destruction You Can Count Me In

2019

An Infinite Loop for Resistance poster
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This is a media-fashioned attack aimed at the disturbing omnipotence of hyperrealism and fascist banality – best symbolised by Donald Trump’s burning latex effigy.

An Infinite Loop for Resistance

2017

Bedford Cheese poster
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Made from rephotographed cellphone footage, a GoPro, casette recorders, and shards of sweet tunes. In hell one fantasizes about becoming one of the matriculating cancers in the aristocracy's faux counter-culture (and the recycled variants.) He soon learns his soul is meant for disintegration, and he wasn't born with the particular nonchalant disinterest needed to survive in the wild. He decides to purchase his identity.

Bedford Cheese

2016

Body Prop poster
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From escalating chaos to meditative nirvana: an unleashed, audiovisual film poem made from distorted, superimposed 8mm & 16mm images.

Body Prop

2020

No artwork available
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As I fever dream, the closing bell clangs, and its tendrils burrow inwards to impregnate infections; to pull the ingrown digital sickness and burst the LCD cyst; a tumult of nothingness that beckons with a toxic glimmer; a toppling structure of superfluous and dying signs, littering everything, suffocating everything; even in organic tissue the digital implants, supplants, rots, and crystallizes, flickers and spins, spurts, metastasizes, vomits, ejaculates, imprinting permanently the afterimage of today where there is no trading on futures. 16mm Analog Print of made of four rolls of in-camera multiple-exposure film shot in a Bolex.

Closing Bell

2018

Dailies From the USA poster
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This is a document of an afternoon recorded in Skid Row.

Dailies From the USA

2017

Dailies from Dumpland Part 5 poster
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After the body politic falls to shit, might as well get all your buddies and dance dance dance. Hedonism is the only real cure for tyranny if you're white. The "counter-culture" isn't countering anything, except squares. The "counter-culture" now dresses up in ethnic stereotypes and calls itself "woke" like that Acai Bowl got me woke this morning. Hot yoga then shrooms and molly at the fest, K? The matriculating cancer loves nothingness. The matriculating cancer cannot see beyond the movie in their head. A Zac Efron romantic comedy about bourgeoisie youth finding their passion for nothing, and forming friendships that will last a lifetime and a second. But on the shit-end of the stick, I can't get this fucking Trump mask off my face. I can't get this fucking Trump mask off my face. I can't get this fucking Trump mask off my face. I can't get this fucking Trump mask off my face. I can't get this fucking Trump mask off my face. I can't get this fucking Trump mask off my face.

Dailies from Dumpland Part 5

2017