Miranda July

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Miranda July

Miranda July at the SF Cinematheque Fundraiser held at Theater Artaud, October 23, 2006
Birth name Miranda Jennifer Grossinger
Born February 15, 1974 (age 33)
Barre, Vermont, USA Flag of United States

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[edit] Overview

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.[citation needed]

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]

[edit] Filmmaking

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 prize in The Cannes Festival 2005.[3]

Beginning in 1996, while residing in Portland, July began a project called Joanie4Jackie (originally called "Big Miss Moviola") which solicited short films by women, which she compiled onto video cassettes, using the theme of a chain letter. She then sent the cassette to the participants, and to subscribers to the series, and offered them for sale to others interested. The Joanie4Jackie series also screened at film festivals and DIY movie events. So far, thirteen editions have been released, the latest in 2002.

[edit] Music

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 on by Kill Rock Stars, and a split EP with IQU in 1999 on K Records.

[edit] Multimedia

In 1998, July made her first full-length multimedia performance piece, Love Diamond, in collaboration with composer Zac Love; she called it a "live movie." She performed it at venues around the country, including the New York Video Festival, The Kitchen, and Yo-yo a Go-go in Olympia. She created her next major full-length performance piece, The Swan Tool, in 2000, also in collaboration with Love, with digital production work by Mitsu Hadeishi. She performed this piece in venues around the world, including the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

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. Her next story, 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, scheduled to be released on May 15, 2007.

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Publications

[edit] Books

  • The Boy from Lam Kien (July 1, 2005) (Cloverfield Press)
  • No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories (May 15, 2007) (Charles Scribner's Sons)
  • Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher, Learning to Love You More (fall 2007) (Prestel Publishing)

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

  • 10 Million Hours A Mile (1997) (Kill Rock Stars)
  • The Binet-Simon Test (1998) (Kill Rock Stars)

[edit] EP's

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Short Films

[edit] Full Length

[edit] Performances

  • Love Diamond (1998-2000)
  • The Swam Tool (2000-2002)
  • How I Learned To Draw (2002-2003)
  • Things We Don't Understand And Are Definitely Not Going To Talk About (2006 - Present)

[edit] Personal

July dated Radio Sloan from the Need when she first moved to Portland. She went on to date K Records founder Calvin Johnson.[4] July is currently dating artist/ film director Mike Mills.[citation needed]

[edit] Trivia

  • In 1999, July directed Sleater-Kinney's music video for their single Get Up.[1] Sleater-Kinney's lead guitarist Carrie Brownstein is featured in July's short film Getting Stronger Everyday.
  • Johanna Fateman, of the post-punk band Le Tigre, has referred to July as being her "best friend from high school". While in college the two collaborated on a zine entitled Snarla.[5]

[edit] Interviews

[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.
  4. ^ http://www.kuci.org/~justin/bedtime/miranda.htm
  5. ^ http://www.letigreworld.com/sweepstakes/html_site/fact/jofacts.html

[edit] External links

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