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15th DMZ Docs(2023)

I AM DOCU



Fox MAXY

  • USA
  • 2023
  • 72min
  • 15 +
  • DCP
  • color

Korean Premiere

Synopsis

We¡¯re our own worst enemies. Fox Maxy¡¯s F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now is a look at her moving home. The film captures an ongoing land dispute between family within an expressive pop culture–inflicted collage. In the words of its maker, ¡°This film is me speaking for me and that¡¯s it¡±. 

Review

 Gush is a bizarre film of the year with an explosion of Fox Maxi¡¯s uncontrollable individuality. In this film, Maxi demonstrates what an utterly free-spirited artist can do. Her film is like a circus of video arts, documentaries, experimental films, animations, music videos, television archives, and kaleidoscopes. Her film is also record, play, resistance, and cry. Gush presents a visual and auditory swirl of images with different origins. It also goes beyond ordinary genres and formats, without allowing any expectation or prediction. The title, Gush, has two meanings. Gush can mean a gush of blood or a gush of affection to a beloved. This dichotomy is the point that Maxi¡¯s beautiful abstract tries to depict and the reason why images of brain, blood, heart, cigarette, dog, camera, festival, fashion, driving, and dance are repeated in the film. This experimental film confuses the definitions of narrative and explores what can be done with cameras. It also inspires storytelling in the era where anyone can easily access the recorders. While collage between suggestive words, images, and sound rhythm causes nausea, it also declares the birth of new art in unstoppable rhythm and speed.        

Director

  • Fox MAXY

    Fox Maxy is a filmmaker based in San Diego, CA. Her work has screened at TIFF, MoMA, IFFR and BlackStar Film Festival among other places. In 2020, Cousin Collective supported the director with her first grant. In 2022, Fox was named as Sundance Film Festival Institute's Merata Mita Fellow. For 2022-2024, she is a Vera List Center Borderlands Fellow. Fox premiered her first feature length film, Gush, at Sundance Film Festival 2023. Currently Fox is working on a film about mental health.

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