About
Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist, and writer. Her videos, performances, and web-based projects have been presented at sites such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and in two Whitney Biennials. July 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. Miranda July’s most recent film is The Future (2011), which she wrote and directed and stars in.
Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s, and The New Yorker; her collection of stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You (Scribner, 2007), won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and has been published in twenty countries. Her latest book is It Chooses You (McSweeney’s, 2011).
July created the participatory website, learningtoloveyoumore, with artist Harrell Fletcher and a companion book was published in 2007 (Prestel); the work is now in collection of The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Eleven Heavy Things, an interactive sculpture garden she designed for the 2009 Venice Biennale, was on view in Union Square in New York in the summer of 2010 and is currently being presented by MOCA in Los Angeles. Raised in Berkeley, California, she currently lives in Los Angeles.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
VICE Photos, by Miranda July and Roe Ethridge, VICE Magazine. A Film Issue, Vol. 16 Num. 9, 2009
Miranda July, currated by Matthew Higgs, Interview Magazine. August 2009
Atlanta, The New Yorker. June 11, 2007
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
