Miranda July

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Miranda July (born February 15, 1974) is a performance artist, musician, writer, actress and film director. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California, after having lived for many years in Portland, Oregon. Born Miranda Jennifer Grossinger, she works under the surname of "July" because she says it is the month that most facilitates her creativity.

She was born in Barre, Vermont, grew up in Berkeley, California, and later attended UC Santa Cruz. Timothy Leary was her godfather.^[1] After leaving college, she moved to Portland and took up performance art. Her performances were successful, as she has been quoted as saying she has not worked a day job since she was 23 years old.^[2]

Filmmaker Magazine rated her number one in their "25 New Faces of Indie Film" in 2004. After winning a slot in a Sundance workshop, she developed her first feature-length film, Me and You and Everyone We Know, which opened in 2005. The film won The Caméra d'Or in The Cannes Festival 2005.^[3]

Beginning in 1996, while residing in Portland, July began a project called Joanie4Jackie which solicited short films by women, which she compiled onto video cassettes, using the theme of being a chainletter. She then sent the cassette to the participants and subscribers to the series as well as offering them for sale to those interested. The Joanie4Jackie series also screened at film festivals and DIY movie events. So far, thirteen editions have been released, the latest in 2002.

She recorded her first EP for Kill Rock Stars in 1996, entitled Margie Ruskie Stops Time, with music by The Need. After that, she released two more full-length LPs, both distributed by Kill Rock Stars, and an additional EP with IQU in 1999 on K Records.

Her short story The Boy from Lam Kien was published in 2005 by Cloverfield Press as a special-edition book with illustration by Elinor Nissley and Emma Hedditch. Another story by July, Something That Needs Nothing was published in the September 18, 2006 issue of the New Yorker magazine. No One Belongs Here More Than You is a 224 page collection of her stories to be released May 15, 2007.

Contents 1 Bibliography 1.1 Publications 1.2 Books 2 Discography 2.1 Albums 2.2 Compilations 3 Filmography 3.1 Short Films 3.2 Full Length 4 Personal 5 Interviews 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Publications

• Jack and Al (Fall 2002) (Mississippi Review)
• The Moves (Spring 2003) (Tin House)
• This Person (Spring 2003) (Bridge Magazine)
• Birthmark (Spring 2003) (Paris Review)
• Frances Gabe's Self Cleaning House (Fall 2003) (Nest Magazine)
• It Was Romance (Fall 2003) (Harvard Review)
• Making Love in 2003 (Fall 2003) (Paris Review)
• The Man on the Stairs (Spring/Summer 2004) (Fence Magazine)
• The Shared Patio (Winter 2005) (Zoetrope: All-Story)
• Something That Needs Nothing (September 18, 2006) (The New Yorker)
• Majesty (September 28, 2006) (Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

[edit] Books

• The Boy from Lam Kien (July 1, 2005) (Cloverfield Press)
• No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories (May 15, 2007) (Scribner)

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

• Margie Ruskie Stops Time (1996) with music by The Need (Kill Rock Stars)
• 10 Million Hours in a Mile (1997) (Kill Rock Stars)
• The Binet-Simon Test (1998) (Kill Rock Stars)
• Girls on Dates (1999) (K Records)

[edit] Compilations

• Diagnostic on Cha Cha Cabaret: Chez Vous (K Records)
• The Co-Star on Dub Narcotic: Selector Dub Narcotic (1998) (K Records)
• Out Of Your Mind on Dub Narcotic Sound System's Out Of Your Mind (2005) (K Records)

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Short Films

• I Started Out With Nothing and I Still Have Most of It Left
• Featured in Emily B. Kingan's documentary The Portland Girl Convention (1996)
• A Shape Called Horse on Video Fanzine #1 (Kill Rock Stars)
• Atlanta (1996) on Audio-Cinematic Mix Tape (Peripheral Produce)
• The Amateurist (1998) on Joanie 4 Jackie 4Ever
• Nest of Tens (2000) (Peripheral Produce)
• Getting Stronger Every Day (2001) on Peripheral Produce’s All-Time Greatest Hits (Peripheral Produce)
• Narrator on Matt McCormick's The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal (2001) on Peripheral Produce’s All-Time Greatest Hits (Peripheral Produce)
• Haysha Royko (2003)
• Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody? (2005) Available from Video Dog (Wholphin (DVD))
• Things We Don't Understand And Are Definitely Not Going To Talk About (Spring 2007)

[edit] Full Length

• Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) (IFC Films)

[edit] Personal

July dated Radio Sloan from the Need when she first moved to Portland. She is currently dating artist and film director, Mike Mills (director).

[edit] Interviews

• Interview on After Ellen.com
• Miranda July interview on Drinks with Tony hosted by Tony DuShane
• Interview with The Onion A.V. Club
• Miranda July Interview on Future Movies

[edit] References

1. ^ As reported by several of her classmates at UC Santa Cruz. Miranda July brought Leary along to class once and introduced him as her godfather.
2. ^ G. Allen Johnson. Performance artist's new role -- film director, San Francisco Chronicle. 29 June 2003. Retrieved 11 April 2006.
3. ^ Caméra d'Or (co-winners). Retrieved 11 April 2006.

[edit] External links

• Official site
• MySpace
• Miranda July blog
• Me And You Website
• Learning To Love You More
• List of performances from Miranda on NPR's The Next Big Thing.
• Miranda July at the Internet Movie Database