Gush

Feature Film
2023

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Gush marks a clear progression in Maxy’s method with an organizational logic more akin to music than any conventional narrative form. Maxy has stated that this is, in part, a film about mental health and healing. Gush’s cumulative effect is liberatory precisely because it avoids the usual cinematic language of trauma and victimization. Where too often film works tend to redouble the violence that they aim to condemn, Gush unfurls like a multi-faceted tapestry, one intent on showing that joy and pain, memory and future, hope and fear, are all inseparable and simultaneously present. Written by Michael Sicinski.