tephen Kent Jusick is always looking for interesting experimental films and videos (especially queer ones!). He has been involved with MIX:The New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival since 1989, from festival coordinator to associate director and most recently as associate director. He founded the Baltimore Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and was instrumental in shaping Queer Articulations: the Princeton Film/Video Festival. He is working on a nonfiction film on gay cartoonists, some zines, a film abouit the NYC subways, and other projects. Stephen Kent Jusick has been curating experimental film since 1989, and making films since 1992. In 1995 he founded Fever Films to distribute experimental film and video for public exhibition. During 1996 and 1997 he was the membership and outreach coordinator for Media Network. In 1997 his installation Creamachine (created with Justin Yockel) graced the men's room at the Cinema Village movie theater in Manhattan, while other installations were presented as part of the Downtown Arts Festival at clubs the Tunnel and Mother. In 1998 he co-founded (with Scott Berry) the microcinema Brooklyn Babylon Cinema. Jusick has curated programs and exhibited at Anthology Film Archives, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Art in General, Exit Art, Dixon Place, Princeton University, Pleasure Dome, the Blinding Light!, MIX, the SF Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, the SF Cinematheque, the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, the legendary East Village dive bar I.C. Guys, dumba, Queeruption, Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, and others. Some of Jusick’s Super8mm film work can be seen on the Hedwig and the Angry Inch DVD. In 1999 Jusick began collaborating with DJ Econ, starting with the “quasi-cinema” Times Square Sinema program. Their multiple projection and sound environments include PURE PROTEIN (a vintage porn dance party) and CINESONIC (an experimental soundscape), and have been seen in various locations in New York City, as well as in Buffalo and Vancouver, B.C. Jusick was instrumental in creating the underground Lusty Loft art/sex parties (1999-2001) which have been written up twice in the Village Voice. Since January 2001, his weekly CineSalon in New York City has attracted a hard-core audience of artists, dropouts, activists, drag queens, sexworkers, radicals and the occasional celebrity, garnering mention as a laboratory of “young gay rebels” on Gaywired.com. Most recently he worked on Sex Not Bombs in SoHo. Jusick’s curated program of Super8mm films appeared at the MIX Festival in November 2002. His writing has appeared in Out in All Directions (Warner Books, 1995), IndieWIRE, New York Blade News, Intervalometer, MIXZINE, Crucial Anatomy and others.

Send cool gay Super8 films or zines to: Stephen Kent Jusick, 23 East 10th Street - apt. PHG; New York, New York 10003. Or e-mail me at skj@feverfilms.org

(Click here to jump into upcoming Fever FIlms programs, including ILLICIT ACTS, all new Super8 films commissioned by SKJ, and Queer(S)punk, SKJ's irrepressibly queer film program from MIX 97)  

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