Juice was the final adult film directed by filmmaker Arthur J. Bressan, Jr., a pioneering voice in independent queer cinema who incorporated adult film into his wider range of stories about queer life during the 70’s and 80’s. Alongside adult movies like Forbidden Letters and Passing Strangers, Bressan also created documentaries about the blossoming gay rights movement (Gay USA) and made the first narrative feature film ever about the AIDS epidemic (Buddies).
Juice follows Jim (Michael Christopher), a photographer on a deadline to find new models for the gay magazine he works for. He spends the weekend perusing around New York City on a search for men to photograph, all while dreaming about a jogger (Vincent Thomas) he met in the park.
The film will be introduced by filmmaker and archivist Jenni Olson, one of the co-directors of The Bressan Project: an organization dedicated to restoring and re-releasing the many works Bressan made throughout his life. After the screening, Jenni Olson will be on hand to discuss the film with writer Dennis Harvey (48 Hills, Variety).
