About
Miranda July is a filmmaker, performing artist and writer. She grew up in Berkeley, California where she began her career by writing plays and staging them at an all-ages club. July’s videos, performances, and web-based projects have been presented at sites such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and in the 2002 and 2004 Whitney Biennials. Her collection of stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You, was published in 2007 and won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her fiction has been printed in The Paris Review, Harper’s, and The New Yorker. In 2002 July created the participatory website, learningtoloveyoumore, with artist Harrell Fletcher, and a companion book was published in 2007 by Prestel. She wrote, directed and starred in her first feature-length film, Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), which won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and four prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, including the Camera d’Or. July debuted a new performance in 2007 at The Kitchen (NY), and is currently working on her second movie. She lives in Los Angeles.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
1000 Words, by Miranda July, ArtForum. February 2007
Portland Miracle, interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Purple Fashion
Magazine. Spring/Summer 2006
Everyone She Knew, feature by Scott Macaulay, Filmmaker Magazine.
Spring 2005
Hollywood Can Wait, feature by Karen Durbin, The New York Times.
June 19, 2005 Arts and Leisure Desk
Some Kind Of Grace, interview by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Camera Obscura #55, 2004
TopTen, ArtForum, by Miranda July, May 2004
Miranda July: The Swan Tool, by David Cote, Time Out. Dec 2001
Renaissance Riot Grrl Rising, by Chris Chang, Film Comment. July 2000
“Do-It-Yourself Girl Revolution”, by Ada Calhoun, The Austin
Chronicle. September 1999
99 Channels and Nothing On, interview by Alison Maclean, Filmmaker
Magazine, Spring 1999
The Marvelous World of Miranda July, by Johnny Ray Houston, San
Francisco Bay Guardian. June 1998