The Death Spiral Tour 2025: Body Prop by M. Woods

Mills Folly Microcinema welcomes Chicago-based filmmaker, curator, and activist M. Woods for a screening of Body Prop, part of The Death Spiral Tour 2025 on Wednesday, April 23, 2025 at 7:00pm.

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 Dissassociative Productions. 

Mostly made of hand-processed super 8 and 16mm film, Body Prop 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.

(75 minutes Screening)

Doors open at 6:30pm