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Topical Cream: Blessings and Transmutations: An Interview with Fox Maxy

May 10, 2023

In this interview, Borderlands Fellow Fox Maxy and VLC's Camila Palomino discuss the ways in which film can offer a way to work through trauma and joy. They focus on Maxy's first feature film Gush, which premiered in early 2023 at the Sundance Film Festival and melds forms of documentary and diary to create something in-between.

BLESSINGS AND TRANSMUTATIONS: AN INTERVIEW WITH FOX MAXY

TOPICAL CREAM, MAY 10, 2023

“In the past, especially in my earlier films like San Diego or Maat, I feel like that was coming from a place of just sheer anger, frustration—a lot of negative stuff. Now editing Gush, I’m like, no. I can still rot, which basically means resting for me, but it doesn’t need to be so heavy. It is actually really beautiful that I’m able to do my work and make weird shit and people want to see it, and I’m getting paid sometimes! So why sit here and be frustrated—I already did that! Now, it’s way more fun, and I’m being more conscious of like, let’s not block the blessings. I don’t have to be a bitch all the time, like let’s just be grateful and get the shit done, you know, go at my own pace.”