Fox Maxy

A bad day for Willow only gets worse, like the weather.

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

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.

An ode to the memories of El Aliso, the sycamore tree that once stood at the center of Yaangna, the Indigenous Gabrieleno village that Los Angeles grew out from. All elements sourced in the film are from the original site and the nearby Los Angeles River.

This film is about gifts from your blood.

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.

After waking up alone in a forest and determined to find a way out, a young Native artist finds company in a mysterious voice on the other end of a walkie-talkie as she is tormented by an ominous hooded monster.

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.

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.