F1GHTING LOOKS DIFFERENT 2 ME NOW
Fox Maxy, Luiseño/Payómkawichum and Diegueño/Iipay Kumeyaay, digital, 11 min, 2022
💔 We’re our own worst enemies. Delivered in her signature kaleidoscopic montage style, F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now documents the filmmaker’s homecoming to the ancestral lands of the Mesa Grande Band of Diegueño Mission Indians. Exuberant, exhilarating, and exploding with disruptive energy, F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now is a portrait of people and country that reflects the artist’s ongoing explorations of time, identity, and the environment.—Melbourne International Film Festival Fox Maxy (1992). 10+ films since 2018; screenings at venues including BlackStar Film Festival, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, Media City Film Festival, Camden International Film Festival, and International Film Festival Rotterdam, where she won a Tiger Short Award (2021). COUSIN Collective grantee (2020), Sundance Institute Merata Mita Fellowship (2022), Vera List Center Borderlands Fellowship (2022–24). Lives in San Diego, California.
