Australian erotic art filmmaker
About Missy Jubilee
Missy Jubilee is an Australian filmmaker, photographer and erotic art director creating The Future Sex Love Art Projekt: a planned 250-film autobiographical series about sex, love, memory, shame, desire, performance, censorship and survival.
230+films completed
250film autobiographical project
363international awards
264Mviews worldwide
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A film project built like a confession
The work sits between cinema, memoir, sexual confession, feminist provocation and documentary self-portraiture.
Positioning
Explicit work, handled as art rather than churn
Missy Jubilee’s project is personal, uncomfortable and deliberately difficult to categorise. The films are explicit, but the organising idea is not shock for its own sake: it is autobiography, image-making, memory and performance pushed through erotic cinema.
A massive undertaking of 250 films over 15 years
Missy Jubilee is an Australian filmmaker, photographer, and writer working in personal erotic art film. She writes and directs her own material, shoots and edits it, and releases it as an ongoing body of work called The Future Sex Love Art Projekt.
She was born in 1981 and grew up in Mullumbimby, New South Wales. She studied mathematics and then visual arts in Melbourne, and worked across graphic design, advertising, music production, and web design before turning the camera on her own life
Her films sit between documentary, monologue, and erotic short. She is interested in what happens to a woman who insists on writing her own diagnosis. Her films are a study of self-directed indulgence, addiction, and public shame, told in the first person, without a therapist standing in the frame. The voice is nihilist, self-forensic, darkly funny, and refuses to hand over the language of a life to anyone else.
The Future Sex Love Art Projekt is a slow, deliberate catalogue of a single woman thinking out loud in public, one film at a time, until there are 250 of them.
Who is Missy Jubilee?
Missy Jubilee is an Australian filmmaker, photographer, and writer who is known for her bold and boundary-pushing work in the world of female erotica.
Her films and photos explore the intersection of sexuality, sensuality, and identity, and challenge traditional notions of gender, sexuality, and beauty.
Let me tell you about the life and work of Missy Jubilee, including her background, inspirations, and creative process, as well as the impact of her films on the world of erotica and female representation.
Background and Career
Missy Jubilee was born in Australia in 1981, and grew up in the small town of Mullumbimby. She studied mathematics and then visual arts at university in Melbourne
She then worked in various creative fields, including graphic design, advertising, music production, and web design.
After many years of exploring different creative paths, Missy became interested in the world of erotica and sensual art, and began to experiment with creating her own films and photos, while being a minority director of major porn media collateral supply company ‘Righteous Films’.
She drew inspiration from her own experiences of sexuality and sensuality, as well as from the works of other filmmakers and artists who explored similar themes.
Over the years, Missy has become a highly respected and influential figure in the world of erotica, known for her innovative approach and her willingness to challenge traditional notions of gender, sexuality, and beauty.
Creative Process and Style
Missy Jubilee’s films and photos are characterized by a unique and highly stylized aesthetic, featuring striking imagery, bold colors, and sensual lighting.
Her work often incorporates elements of surrealism, performance art, and experimental filmmaking, and is marked by a raw and authentic approach to sexuality and the female body.
In her creative process, Missy draws on her own experiences of sexuality and sensuality, as well as on the experiences of her collaborators and models. She places a strong emphasis on communication and collaboration, and works closely with her models to create a safe and supportive environment in which they can explore their own sexuality and sensuality.
One of the key themes that runs through Missy’s work is the exploration of identity and self-expression. Her films and photos challenge traditional gender roles and celebrate the diversity of human sexuality, showcasing a wide range of bodies, genders, and expressions of desire.
Impact and Legacy
Missy Jubilee’s work has had a significant impact on the world of erotica and female representation, challenging traditional ideas of beauty, sexuality, and gender, and opening up new possibilities for self-expression and exploration.
Her films and photos have been exhibited at art galleries and festivals around the world, and have won numerous awards and accolades. They have also been widely praised for their powerful and thought-provoking representation of female sexuality, which stands in stark contrast to the objectifying and limiting representations that are often seen in mainstream media.
In addition to her creative work, Missy is also an advocate for social justice and equality, and uses her platform to raise awareness of issues related to sexuality, gender, and identity. She is a vocal supporter of the #MeToo movement, and has spoken out against the objectification and exploitation of women in the entertainment industry and beyond.
Conclusion
Missy Jubilee is a visionary artist and filmmaker who has made a significant contribution to the world of erotica and female representation. Through her bold and boundary-pushing work, she has challenged traditional ideas of beauty, sexuality, and gender, and has opened up new possibilities for self-expression and exploration.
Her films and photos are powerful and thought-provoking representations of female sexuality, showcasing a wide range of bodies, genders, and expressions of desire. They stand as a testament to the power of art to challenge and transform the world, and to the importance of self-expression and exploration in the journey towards self-discovery and empowerment
Arundai Grunchfeld is a pioneer in the mainstream erotic industry. He grew up in Moscow Russia and Netanya, Israel as the son of a father who was a senior director of Mossad, and a mother who was a Professor of Literature at Tel Aviv University. After studying film-making at the prestigious USC School of Cinematic Arts, he then worked under Barry Diller at Paramount Pictures for 10 years. He now runs the major global distributor xFilms New York, and he is also a director of European erotic film distributor Skin Flicks. In 2022, due to the success of Missy Jubilee’s 250 film project, he was appointed as an executive director of Gemini Film Distribution. He runs Gemini Film Distribution’s USA film business out of Los Angeles and New York. He lives in Georgetown in the Cayman Islands.
MAKE ART. NOT PORN
Yes, the films are hot, but not in the way the last generation would think about porn.
Artful, for sure, but free from being pretentious. Sometimes even sad, but with soundtracks that could make any dance music club fire up.
Adult film is the last place to expect this kind of thing, but Missy Jubilee is clearly following her own direction, and it’s leading into unmapped territory.
Missy is single-handedly mainstreaming erotica in the most interesting and unexpected ways.
– Gladys Tamez
SEX POSITIVE
An intelligent alternative
According to Missy, a great deal of her early motivation was a broad feeling of disgust and distrust for the conventional adult industry, where filmmakers seem to be in an “arms race” to degrade women, to see who can be the most disgusting, explicit and hardcore.
The Future Sex Love Art Project launched as a response to this… and aims to provide a healthy intelligent alternative to dumb porn. 230+ films later, she hasn’t even begun to run out of ideas.
Missy continued, “Many people thought 250 films represented a huge number, but it really isn’t. Who doesn’t have a 250 subject they would like to explore? This is an act of love and passion… sometimes it feels great and sometimes it hurts. But I’m putting it all out there for the world to see, and hopefully appreciate.”
The first 120 films were completed with her filmmaking partner – television and film industry veteran Max Jubilee – as cinematographer, editor & director.
The chemistry that was captured was undeniable.
However, sadly, Max took his own life on 13th January 2020 at the age of 60 years old. He was twenty years older than Missy.
These events were dealt with in Missy’s films ‘I LIKE EM DROPPED (DEAD)’ and also ‘KUNT’
Interestingly, the highly personal film ‘I LIKE EM DROPPED (DEAD)’ is the only one where there is no nudity.
Returning to art roots
What is Missy’s end goal with her project?
Adult film stardom? Mainstream acceptance?
Missy has described the long-term exhibition goal as all 250 films playing simultaneously on 250 screens at the Tate Modern in London and MoMA New York, in an exhibition titled ‘The New Pornographers’.
“I want the naked body to be back in the best art museums in the world, not relegated to Pornhub”
The wider project also includes SEX LUV RECORDS, a music-label pathway for Missy’s catalogue of remixes.
