| Marcus Ewert | |
| Birth Date: | 1972 |
| Birth Place: | Atlanta, Georgia, United States |
Marcus Ewert, previously known as Mark Ewert, is an American writer, actor and director, living in San Francisco.[1]
Ewert began making and appearing in films in the 1990s. He has appeared in the Gus Van Sant short film Four Boys on the Road in a Volvo, in Sadie Benning's Flat Is Beautiful, and the movie Frisk by Todd Verow. In 2008, the feature film The Lollipop Generation by G.B. Jones was released starring Mark Ewert in a lead role, alongside Jena von Brucker, Vaginal Davis, Calvin Johnson, Joel Gibb and Scott Treleaven.[2]
His first collaborative work as a director was with Joshua Tager: together they made A New Flag. He then began collaborating with David Crystallah, making several films together in 1998. These films played frequently at film festivals. In 1999, he began working with David Cutler. The two created Piki & Poko, first released in the 2000s (decade). These animated short flash cartoons created for the Internet were immediately successful and have been distributed by Mondo Mini Shows. There have been thirty three episodes scripted and twenty eight have been released. The episode entitled Taking The Dare! also appeared on Season 6 of the Emmy Award winning PBS series, Independent Lens.[3] The series began airing on the Logo channel in 2008, as part of the Alien Boot Camp animation anthology.
Ewert is also a writer. His work has appeared in a number of anthologies and other publications including the 2004 Lambda Literary Award winning non-fiction anthology I Do/ I Don't. He has participated in the 'Litquake Literary Festival' and the 'Porch Light'[4] reading series, both held in San Francisco. He has appeared in such literary journals as Shampoo, Suspect Thoughts, Star*line, and For Immediate Release. He was co-editor (with Mitchell Watkins) of Ruh Roh, an anthology of artists' work that included pieces by Kathy Acker, Allen Ginsberg, Gregg Araki, Clive Barker, Sadie Benning, Dennis Cooper, Mike Diana, G.B. Jones, Paul McCarthy, Gus van Sant, and many others. His first book 10,000 Dresses, illustrated by Rex Ray, was published by Seven Stories Press in September 2008.[5] 10,000 Dresses was recognized by the American Library Association on the 2009 Rainbow Book List,[6] as a Stonewall Children's and Young Adult Literature Honorbook,[7] and a 2008 Lambda Literary Award Finalist.[8]
Ewert was the last lover of William S. Burroughs,[9] which he has written about for publication, and as a lover of Allen Ginsberg's while at Naropa University. As of 2008, he was writing his memoirs of these, and other events.[5] [10]
Ewert has been the subject of the work of several artists; the writers Allen Ginsberg and Dennis Cooper; and the photographers Daniel Nicoletta,[11] and Marc Gellar, whose well-known photos of Mark and Moon Trent are featured on the covers of three Pansy Division CDs, Deflowered (1994), Wish I'd Taken Pictures (1996), and ‘’Quite Contrary’’ (2016).