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Miranda July is one talented lady, and it seems like SFist may be playing catchup in recognizing it. Everyone from the Paris Review to the NPR to the Sundance Film Festival to the crew running the Whitney Biennial are into Miranda's carefully crafted films and performances. Despite the fact that Miranda's work seems to be universally praised, she has one of the healthiest takes on art critics we've come across: they're performing for an audience too.
Miranda's first feature length film won big at Sundance, and opens next week in San Francisco. "Me and You and Everyone We Know" is about connecting in a disconnected world, and about meeting someone who changes how you go about living your world. Cool, right?
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Name
Miranda July
Introduce yourself in one sentence
Hi, I'm Miranda.
Age and Occupation
31. writer of fiction and screenplays, director, actress/performing artist.
Home Town
Berkeley, CA.
Favorite website
Right now it is meandyoumovie.com
What I'm currently Reading
Edwin Mulhouse.
Best Deal in San Francisco
This is Berkeley: anything from Urban Ore.
Favorite mode of SF transportation
BART
How do you define performance art?
I never call myself a performance artist, usually I just say I perform live. I used to call my performances "live movies" because they were so video-heavy. they are very scripted pieces, with lots of dialogue, usually a soundtrack, usually audience participation.
How do you describe what you do?
I am a writer who make movies, performances, recordings and combinations of these things.
For many artists being in the Whitney Biennial is "arriving." Did you feel that way?
No. I'm not a commercial artist so altho it was very exciting, it was not the great milestone it would be for someone who had a gallery and a career in the art world. this movie feels much much more like arriving. I've wanted to direct a feature film since I was in high school.
What's next?
Just keep on doing all of it.
How do you come up with ideas for your projects?
I go off of how I feel when I sit down to right, I always try to bring some of the present moment in to it, or else it just becomes too much of a task.
What is the one thing you want everyone to know about the latest film?
There's nothing I have to say about it, I just want people to go see it.
What do you think of art/film critics?
I just try to remember that they are performing for an audience just like I am.
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