A celebration of love and struggle in new documentary about Austin's voodoobilly queen.
Even five years after her death, Izzy Cox remains a unique artistic force within the Austin music scene. The self-proclaimed Voodoobilly Queen exuded a defiantly DIY aesthetic, full of brash charisma and an often chaotic energy distilled from her life into her songs. With a bedrock of cabaret jazz and swampy blues laced with a punk style, Cox's songwriting cut deceptively dark and deep.
When she passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2017 at the age of 42, local filmmaker Omar Mousa was already working on a documentary, attempting to capture Cox's unique world and ensuring her story and art would not be forgotten. The result,MyPoint.tv"The moment we knew there was cancer and there was only like six months for her, I wanted something that would kind of cheer her up a little bit, and maybe create a bigger picture," offered Mousa.
The final third of the film focuses on those last months and Cox's harrowing decline both in hospice and onstage before her fans, but it also contrasts starkly against the vibrant and defiant artist introduced at the outset. Cox led a difficult life, struggling with mental illness and post-traumatic stress disorder, addictions, and even the self-sabotage of her career.
"Hopefully this will encourage more filmmakers to touch on this subject matter, and encourage a lot of people who are just holding on to the sadness, holding on to the grief, to just talk about it. I think the therapy starts when you speak about it," asserted Mousa."I want her to be remembered by just that message of love, and her music, which speaks about her pain. It's a film about survivors and people who go through things, and they want to talk about it.
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