Visual Media and Culture Colloquium Series – Fox Maxy
Presented by:
Film and Digital Media + Institute of the Arts and Sciences
Date:
Wednesday, May 17, 2023 – 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Visual Media and Culture Colloquium Series – Fox Maxy
Wednesday, May 17, 2023 – 4:00pm to 9:00pm
Film and Digital Media + Institute of the Arts and Sciences
Talk: Wednesday, May 17th at 4 p.m. in Communications Room 139
Screening: Wednesday, May 17th at 7 p.m. in Communications Studio C
Audiences are invited on May 17th when the Visual & Media Cultures Colloquium (VMCC) will host filmmaker Fox Maxy at UC Santa Cruz. Fox will give an artist talk followed by a screening of her new film Gush (2022).
Fox Maxy is a Payómkawish & Iipay filmmaker based in San Diego, CA. Her work has screened at TIFF, MoMA, Rotterdam 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 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.
ABOUT THE SERIES
The annual Visual and Media Cultures Colloquia (VMCC) at UCSC are a collaboration between the graduate programs in Film and Digital Media Department and Visual Studies in the History of Art and Visual Culture Department. The series brings an array of cutting-edge artists and scholars to speak on a broad spectrum of subjects.
This event is organized by VMCC with support from the Arts Research Institute (ARI).