MIRANDA JULY
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"I ask myself all the big questions, every Sunday."
Miranda July
is not a mythical creature. Yes, her accomplishments are fantastically,
almost superhumanly, impressive for someone her age (she turned 34 in
February): the multiple laurels for her independent, feature-length film
Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), including a special prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award for her book No One Belongs Here More than You (published by Scribner in 2007), her inclusion in two Whitney Biennials, a Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts fellowship. The list goes on: a Creative Capital grant for her participatory website Learning to Love You More (a collaboration with Harrell Fletcher), screenings of her experimental videos at places like the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Guggenheim, and the Rotterdam Film Festival, and live performances presented at venues such as the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the Institute of Contemporary Art in London.
In this interview, she reflects on her formative
conversations – both with herself and with others – and discusses her
drive for bracing emotional honesty. July’s work is often funny, but it
is a dark, gallows humor, unafraid to confront death, perversion,
loneliness, alienation, and emptiness. (In the first scene of Me and You,
a man sets his own hand on fire.) The snowman’s head may be a costume,
but it is a mask that tells the truth. The snowman cannot last past
winter; it is a reminder of fleeting existence and mortality.
Issue #16
Miranda July - Best at belonging to yourself
English / 15 Pages / 15 x
20 cm
Also includes mono.poster #05, artwork by Miranda July.
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