M. Woods (He/Him/They/Them) is a multidisciplinary artist implementing avant-garde strategies under the studio name “Disassociative Productions”. M is a first-generation US citizen, born to a Costa-Rican/Ecuadorian mother. M uses immersive time-based spectacle and constructed trances to navigate the internalized socio-political topographies of addiction, mental and physical disability, malignant nihilism, and white supremacy. M’s work deconstructs the post-911 acceleration of hyperrealism and (media)drug dependency, documenting the spread of solipsism in a media environment dominated by corporate neo-fascism.

A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts (BFA) and the recipient of the Erna Plachte Award from the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford (MFA), M’s multidisciplinary work has been exhibited internationally since 2011. M’s work as a curator/programmer includes retrospective screenings of the work of Khalik Allah at the University of Oxford’s Ruskin School of Art, guest curating for the Aldo Tambellini Art Foundation, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Prismatic Ground, Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, VASTLab, Chicago Filmmakers, and Peripheries Experimental Film & Video Festival. They are the festival director of Fugue State, based in Chicago, and they previously served as director of the Gowanus Underground Film Festival. M’s work is closely tied to their mentor, the late Aldo Tambellini, for whom two of their feature films are dedicated. In 2024, M served as special curator for Aldo Tambellini’s BLACK INFINITUDE, a posthumous retrospective screening and exhibition.

Disassociative Productions toured Europe, the US, Canada, and South America in 2018-2019, in part thanks to the sponsorship of Collectif Jeune Cinéma. M. continues to organize with the avant-garde collective, Agitate [21C], producing independent screenings internationally. Other exhibitions of M’s work include: The Ann Arbor Film Festival, IFFR, the Flaherty Seminar, Oberhausen International Film Festival, VideoEx, Hamburg International Short Film Festival, the Royal Society of British Artists, and Oxford University’s Bodleian Library. They received a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Art, a residency at Light Cone Paris, and retrospectives at Lausanne Underground Film Festival and Cámara Lúcida. M’s first solo gallery retrospective occurred at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art in 2018. Their film work is distributed by Collectif Jeune Cinema, Light Cone, the Oberhausen International Film Festival, and the NY Filmmaker’s Coop.