Cinema Studies Visiting Filmmaker Series Presents:

Gush: Screening and Q&A with Adam Piron

6:30 pm • Thursday, April 27th • Lawrence Hall 115
Free and open to the community

Join Cinema Studies for a screening of Fox Maxy's GUSH (2023) and a discussion with Adam Piron. Reception and mingling after the talk.

Adam Piron is a filmmaker, writer, and member of the Sundance Film Festival’s Short Film Programming Team. He is a member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma and is Mohawk. He is also the Director of Sundance Institute's Indigenous Program where he oversees the organization's investment in Indigenous filmmakers globally. He is also a filmmaker and co-founder of COUSIN: a film collective dedicated to supporting Indigenous artists experimenting with and pushing the boundaries of the moving image. His films have screened in ESPN’s 30 for 30, The New Yorker's Documentary showcase, MoMA Doc Fortnight, MOCA Los Angeles, True/False Film Festival, Camden International Film Festival, and various other festivals and programs.

GUSH | 2023 | 71 MIN  |  Written and Directed by Fox Maxy

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.

GUSH screened in the 2023 Sundance Film Festival “New Frontier,” which champions artists who engage in experimental storytelling at the crossroads of film, art, performance, and media technology, showcasing cutting-edge work that explores and evolves cinema culture in today’s rapidly changing landscape.

“Pieced together from a near decade’s worth of personal archives, Fox Maxy’s GUSH delivers a kaleidoscopic diary of horror and survival. The film flows seamlessly through found footage, documentary sequences, and digital animation as it weaves through a stream-of-consciousness meditation on the impact of sexual violence and healing through collective joy. At first, it is a fiery manifesto on the sovereignty of land and the body, then an ode to the bonds of friendship before morphing into a celebration of what it means to endure. Maxy’s film is a work defiantly without limits, refusing to be categorized. After building a body of work that established her as an artist to watch within the experimental film space, Maxy’s feature film debut is a continuation of her signature freestyle and sumptuous approach to the medium. GUSH blends an intimate collage of personal footage and fixations that — true to its director’s form — creates something like its own cinematic language. It’s a film that speaks to viewers on its own terms and demonstrates the radical possibilities of personal filmmaking.” –Sundance Program Guide

For more information about this event and the entire Visiting Filmmaker Series, please visit: cinema.uoregon.edu.

The UO Cinema Studies Visiting Filmmaker Series is Funded by the Generous Harlan J. Strauss Visiting Filmmaker Endowment.