Gush by Fox Maxy

Gush (2023), Fox Maxy’s feature film debut, utilizes a decade’s worth of personal archives, home movies, animation, and found footage that takes viewers on a journey inside her mind. A battle cry to every ndn out there who has ever thought about making art, 𝘎𝘶𝘴𝘩 is a self-reflection on memory, a celebration of existence and a recognition of one’s healing. 

Presented as part of Research As… with Justin Ducharme

Fox Maxy (Mesa Grande Band of Mission Indians and Payómkawish) is a filmmaker based in San Diego, California. 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. Her first feature film, Gush (2023) is an explosive and expansive collage of images and sounds, a kaleidoscopic look at horror and survival, an ode to the bonds of friendship, and a celebration of what it means to endure. 

Justin Ducharme is a writer, filmmaker and curator from the Métis community of St. Ambroise on Treaty 1 Territory. He was a fellow in the Sundance Film Festival’s 2022 Native Film Lab with his television pilot “Positions” adapted from his short film. He was the recipient of the Toronto International Film Festival’s Barry Avrich Fellowship and is an alumni of their 2021 TIFF Filmmaker Lab. Justin is also the co-editor of Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers Poetry published by Arsenal Pulp Press. His writing has been featured in Canadian Art, Sex Worker Wisdom, Room Magazine, Prism International and Filmmaker Mag. He currently lives and works on the Unceded Coast Salish Territory colonially known as Vancouver.

Research As… is a public program that makes creative research visible. Artists, writers, curators, designers, performers, filmmakers, are invited to engage with ECU and the wider arts community in a series of public programs that present their research practices.