Category Archives: Erotic Art & Culture

What It Means to Be a Female Erotic Art Filmmaker in the Internet Age

I make explicit films about my own life. I have been doing it for fifteen years. In that time, I have won 363 international film festival awards, been photographed for Rolling Stone, and accumulated 264 million views. I have also been removed from Vimeo, defunded by Patreon, terminated by PayPal and Stripe, and classified as […]

The Future Sex Love Art Projekt: 15 Years, 230 Films, 264 Million Views

In 2011, a woman in Australia began filming herself. Not for a client. Not for a platform. Not for anyone in particular. She filmed herself because she had a story to tell that she couldn’t tell any other way — a story about her own body, her own sexuality, her own history of desire and […]

Cancel Culture Is the Salem Witch Trials of the 21st Century

In Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, nineteen people were hanged and one was pressed to death under the weight of stones. The evidence against them was spectral — visions, dreams, the testimony of accusers who claimed to have seen their tormentors in spiritual form. The village believed the accusers. The accused had no meaningful recourse. The […]

When Platforms Censor Art: How Tech Companies Became the New Moral Police

In 2013, Vimeo was the home of the Future Sex Love Art Projekt. The platform was where the films lived, where audiences found them, where the project built its first international following. Then Vimeo decided that the work was pornography. The films were removed. The account was suspended. No appeal process. No warning. Just gone. […]

Editorial black-and-red art-film visual — crimson silk on matte black, evoking restraint and elegance.

What is erotica? Erotic art film vs pornography — drawn from inside the work

By Missy Jubilee For ten years I have been making films about sex. Films that have screened in Las Vegas, in Prague, in Sydney, in Tokyo, in Washington. Films that have won 38 awards, played at 69 different festivals, and been written about by critics who use words like uncompromising and radical and, occasionally, difficult. […]