ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW
2005, 90 minutes
Christine Jesperson is a lonely artist and “Eldercab” driver who uses her fantastical artistic visions to draw her aspirations and objects of desire closer to her. Richard Swersey (John Hawkes), a newly single shoe salesman and father of two boys, is prepared for amazing things to happen. But when he meets Christine, he panics. Life is not so oblique for Richard’s seven-year-old Robby, who is having a risqué internet romance with a stranger, and his fourteen- year-old brother Peter who becomes the guinea pig for neighborhood girls— practicing for their futureof romance and marriage.In July’s modern world, the mundane is transcendent and everyday people become radiant characters who speak their innermost thoughts, act on secret impulses, and experience truthful human moments that at times approach the surreal. They seek together-ness through tortured routes and find redemption in small moments that connect them to someoneelse on earth.An IFC/FILM FOUR and Gina Kwon Production
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ARE YOU THE FAVORITE PERSON OF ANYONE?
2005, 3 min 45 seconds
Directed by Miguel Arteta
Written by Miranda July
A couple weeks after Miranda finished shooting her first feature, she wrote three short dialogues. Miguel called together some friends and made this short film, using the three dialogues as a script. The excellent Chuy Chavez also shot “Me and You and Everyone We Know.”
Starring John C. Reilly, Mike White, Miranda July and Chuy Chavez
Available on Wholpin #1
HAYSHA ROYKO
2003, 4 minutes
Three people negotiate space and energy in the Portland International Airport.
Animation by Jalal Jemison
GETTING STRONGER EVERY DAY
2001, 7 minutes
This one is about being lost and found, from moment to moment, and over the course of a lifetime. The spirit realm manifests in lo-tech effects and remembered TV movies.
Starring Richard Greiling, Carrie Brownstein, and Mia Cianciulli
Cinematography: Harrell Fletcher
Soundtrack: Zac Love
Editing: Miranda July and Keith
Edited at The Lux Centre
Commissioned by The Lux Centre for Pandaemonium 2001
NEST OF TENS
2000, 27 minutes
Four alternating stories about mundane, personal methods of control. Children and a developmentally disabled adult operate control panels made out of paper, lists, monsters and their own bodies.
Starring Polly Bilchuk, Peter Borden, Eva Rioselo, Michael Loggins, Lindsay Beamish, Richard Greiling, Miranda July, and Aidan McClean
Director of photography: Vanessa Renwick
Second unit photography: Richard Lyons
Additional camerawork: Patty Lewis and Elizabeth Meyer
Gaffer: Jean Margaret Thomas
Sound recorder: Daniel Palin
Boom operator: Clint Assay
Editing: Kelly Mc Clean
Sound mixing: Tim Renner
Additional sound mix: Asa Metric
Graphics: Michael Nicholas
Additional graphics and titles: Sean Tejaratchi
Online editing: Jennifer Quinn
Online assitant editing: Melissa Henderson
Edited at Downstream Digital
Soundtrack: Zac Love
Additional sound: Mike Kunka
Made with a grant from the Andrea Frank Foundation
THE AMATEURIST
1998, 14 minutes
A “professional” woman monitors an “amateur” woman (both played by July) via video surveillance, as she has for the last four and a half years. She has never had direct contact with the amateur, but creates a sense of communion through numbers, knobs and careful language.
Digital video: Vanessa Renwick
Surveillance video: Miranda July
Editing: Kelly McClean
Music: Miranda July and D. Ben Noble
Sound mixing: Tim Renner
ATLANTA
1996, 10 minutes
A 12 year-old Olympic swimmer and her mother (both played by July) speak to the public about “going for the gold”.
Videoed by Miranda July, Wu La Dawson, and Summer Mastous
Edited by Miranda July
