About
Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist, and writer. She grew up in Berkeley, California where she began her career as a teenager, writing and directing plays. 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. Eleven Heavy Things, her interactive sculpture garden, is currently on view in the 2009 Venice Biennale. 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. 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. It has been translated into 17 languages. Her fiction has also 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 lives in Los Angeles, where she is working on a new movie entitled, The Future.
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