Fox Maxy is a California-based artist and filmmaker of Kumeyaay and Payómkawichum ancestry. Their work deals with Native American identity and culture, from a decolonial perspective. Their work has screened widely, including at MoMA, LACMA, Rotterdam, and BlackStar Film Festival. In 2020, COUSIN Collective supported Fox with their first grant, and in 2022 they were named as Sundance Institute’s Merata Mita Fellow. They are also a Vera List Center Borderlands Fellow.
Maat (2020), San Diego (2020), Petroleum Jelly (2020), One Big Selfie (2020), Lil Nas X (2019), California Girls (2018), Muzzles Off (2018), Cheyenne Ziegler (2018)
A programme of short works traversing hallucinatory dreamscapes, contested landscapes, and the precarious movements of bodies through time and space. Argentinian auteur Lucrecia Martel screens alongside contemporary artists, Basim Magdy, Marwa Arsanios and Fox Maxy.
This screening will be accompanied with in person conversations with Éiméar McClay & Cat McClay (a body is a body is a body) and Rehana Zaman (Alternative Economies).
In Maat means Land, Fox Maxy (Ipai Kumeyaay and Payómkawichum) has created an intoxicating and urgent film collage that gives invigorating expression to contemporary Indigenous identity, culture and experience. Exploring the question, “what does it mean to come from somewhere?”, Maxy pays homage to the land and his surroundings, whilst challenging us to think about the painful and multi-layered histories that exist within territories scarred by settler colonialism.
