FUGUE STATE RETURNS for Phase 2 of the new art and cinema festival that recently premiered at Chicago's Comfort Station, NYC's Film-Maker's Coop, and Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, returns with another program embracing radical expression in time-based media.

Glenn Sonnie Wooden is one of the most provocative radical thinkers and artists in the Chicago art scene. His works Guillotine and Godspeed, both previously curated by Fugue State founder, M. Woods, directly confront a real more real than real, operating within the slippage of a media's capturing of Blackness, as critic and practitioner of the convex mirror of digital communication. Wooden presents raw hyperreality, sometimes through the most vulnerable self-reflection and exposure, documenting abjectness and trying to hold space for tenderness, while appearing and disappearing into the media himself as guide and interlocutor of this beloved hellscape. Wooden's latest film, THUNDER, and the accompanying short film program, center "the relationships we have with our lovers, parents, places, and any sort of connection that we find endearing and enduring."

Wooden's THUNDER, as described by the artist, is about a man who is experiencing the loss of his lover, finding himself lost and teetering on the edge of his own mortality. Lost and seeking guidance on the proper way to be a man, he slips into a world of contradictions and taboos. Using found footage and documentary filmmaking the protagonist aims to get to the root of what it means to be a “man” again.

In addition to Wooden's THUNDER, the local filmmakers Patricia Aquino, Grace K. Schuler, Jard Lere, and Anusha Alamgir will be screening short films hand selected by Wooden.

Wooden, talking about the accompanying short films that he curated, says:

"The directors that were chosen were due to their ability to traverse the landscape of cinema in relatable but experimental ways. Each director expresses an intimate but unwavering truthful perspective on the nature of relationships, as they examine themselves and internal systems of connection." Other filmmakers in the program expected to be in attendance include Grace K. Schuler and Patricia Aquino in addition to Glenn Sonnie Wooden himself.

Presented by Elastic Arts Foundation and produced by M. Woods, multidisciplinary artist, curator, and founder of Disassociative Productions ( www.thedigitalsickness.com ) Fugue State is constructed as a means to usurp the nepotism and cronyism in film.

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Full Program:

Patricia Aquino - Red 2'

Grace K Schuler - Kin Keeping 7'

Jard Lere - Lespri 5'

Anusha Alamgir - Bubur Basha 27'

Glenn Sonnie Wooden - THUNDER 42'

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