Fox Maxy

Directing

Fox Maxy

Known for

Directing

Credits

12 titles

Fox Maxy is a filmmaker and artist. They are Native to California from two different tribes, Kumeyaay & Payómkawichum from San Diego. Instead of treating art like a form of answering questions, Fox prefers to make work out of a fluid practice where nothing is permanent. They believe that film is accessible, and everyone is a storyteller in some way.

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Film credits

Behind the camera

San Diego poster
2.0

This film is a reaction to colonialism & quarantine. It's made from multiple perspectives and experiences, pieced together by an indigenous voice. It's nontraditional storytelling. There are various qualities of footage: lo-fi camcorders, iPhone, archival images and screen recordings. The content is based on a question of how to keep our communities safe.

San Diego

2020

Gush poster
NR

An embodied rumination of both male and female power, healing and haunting, all within an apocalyptic world. A transformation that courses through unknown terror to untamed collective joy.

Gush

2023

Gush poster
NR

An embodied rumination of both male and female power, healing and haunting, all within an apocalyptic world. A transformation that courses through unknown terror to untamed collective joy.

Gush

2023

Gush poster
NR

An embodied rumination of both male and female power, healing and haunting, all within an apocalyptic world. A transformation that courses through unknown terror to untamed collective joy.

Gush

2023

✧Ⓑ☠☻Ⓛ♡Ⓞ✇☟Ⓞ☁☽Ⓓ✰ ⓜⓐⓣⓔⓡⓘⓐⓛⓢ✦ poster
NR

This film is about gifts from your blood.

✧Ⓑ☠☻Ⓛ♡Ⓞ✇☟Ⓞ☁☽Ⓓ✰ ⓜⓐⓣⓔⓡⓘⓐⓛⓢ✦

2021

Guts and Glitz poster
4.5

Audiovisual material gathered by filmmaker Fox Maxy over a decade, including documentary footage, television clips, and animation—sometimes layered on top of one another—are presented as one collage. Amid this sensory barrage, themes of sexual violence, community, confidence and joy are explored.

Guts and Glitz

2024

Maat Means Land poster
4.0

What does it mean to come from somewhere? This film focuses on California’s Native core.

Maat Means Land

2020

Maat Means Land poster
4.0

What does it mean to come from somewhere? This film focuses on California’s Native core.

Maat Means Land

2020

Maat Means Land poster
4.0

What does it mean to come from somewhere? This film focuses on California’s Native core.

Maat Means Land

2020

F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now poster
NR

Fox Maxy’s maximalist F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now reflects on their familial Mesa Grande Band of Mission Indians and an intra-tribal land dispute by way of video games, pop music, and an evocatively-named red paint.

F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now

2022