Miranda July

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Miranda July (2007)

Miranda July (* 15. February 1974 as Miranda Jennifer Grossinger in cash , Washington County , Vermont ) is a US-based multi-media artist . She is a director , screenwriter , actress , writer , performance artist and musician .

Life

Miranda Jennifer Grossinger was born in Barre, a city in the northeastern United States. Her parents are Lindy Hough and Richard Grossinger, both writers and lecturers at Goddard College there . Robert Grossinger is July's older brother about 5 years. The family that July calls the "typical diy family" soon moved to Berkeley, California, where July was raised. The parents have been running North Atlantic Books since 1974 , which sells books on spirituality, martial arts and alternative medicine. Miranda Grossinger began to discuss tapes with fragments of conversation at the age of 7, which she added to "conversations" when played live.

Miranda Grossinger has been friends with the later musician Johanna Fateman ( Le Tigre ) since she was a teenager . Together with Fateman she founded the Fanzine Snarla . The two girls wrote down their experiences in stories like Snarla in Love . Snarla appeared in 6 issues over a period of 3 to 4 years in the 1990s. The fanzine was distributed by the Riot Grrrl Press . At the age of 16, Miranda Grossinger chose the pseudonym Miranda July (a character from the Snarla stories) to present her first play, The Lifer .

In 1992 Miranda Julys carried out her first feminist action. She made a poster denouncing the repeated sexual assault in her school and pressured her school principal to rectify the situation. The result was that a group of queer activists was invited to the school to educate the students about sexism and how to protect yourself from assault. This experience of being politically effective led her to become involved in the feminist riot grrrl movement.

Miranda July dropped out of her sophomore year at the University of Santa Cruz . Inspired by a high school friend who began studying at Portland Reed College, July moved to Portland . There she lived in a house with other young women. She was the singer in the band The Need . During this time, Miranda July lived as a couple with Radio Sloan, the guitarist of The Need. It was also during this time that she began to develop performances and to perform them at riot grrrl events. Since then she has been friends with the musician and actress Carrie Brownstein . Carrie Brownstein and Miranda July formed a self-organized drama practice group in Portland in 2002. In the 1990s, July made connections with the Olympia independent scene and the Portland film and video community, e. B. Harrell Fletcher and Matt McCormick, with whom she later worked. Until about 1997 July made a living with a job with a locksmith for car doors, since then she has lived from her artistic work.

Artistic career

In 1995 Miranda July started the participatory video project Joanie 4 Jackie , an all girl video chain letter . She collected, curated and compiled short films by exclusively female filmmakers on video cassettes, which she sent to all contributors and subscribers. By 2008 July published 18 Joanie 4 Jackie editions, so-called "chain letters", to which she herself contributed short films. She wanted to give the underground films a certain publicity through these editions. Another motivation for her was her interest in the filmmakers' working methods. July had received no formal artistic training, but in order to develop as a filmmaker she needed incentives and role models to learn from. July said about Joanie 4 Jackie : “That was my film school.” By 2008 July produced around 8 short films, some of which were made in connection with her performances.

Between 1998 and 2002 Miranda July developed her career as a performance artist. From 1998 to 2000 she performed her first full-length performance Love Diamond at art venues in the USA: the New York Video Festival , the New York art space The Kitchen , the Yo-yo a Go-go in Olympia. In 2000 she developed her second full-length performance The Swan Tool , which was performed at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the Guggenheim Museum (New York), the New York Museum of Modern Art , the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art , at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and was shown at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

She celebrated her first successes in the film business in 2005 at the Sundance Film Festival and at the Cannes Film Festival , where she shot the Caméra d'Or with her first feature-length film Me and You and All We Know , which opened the festival . the award for the best debut, u. a. Won prizes. Miranda July made her second feature film The Future in 2010 based on the interactive performance “Things We Don't Understand and Definitely Are Not Going to Talk About”. "The Future" was produced by the production companies Film4 and the German Razor Film Produktion GmbH . Due to the economic crisis in the USA and the subsequent slump in the indie film sector, July looked for sponsors in Europe, including a. in Germany. The Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg funded the production with € 200,000. Due to the funding conditions of the German sponsors, German filmmakers were involved in shooting, For example, the cameraman Nikolai von Graevenitz, who also works with the director Maren Ade , and the film editor Andrew Bird , who edited all of Fatih Akin's films .

Miranda July received career support from Miguel Arteta , director and writer, and from Rick Moody , a writer and family friend. In 2002 Moody was in the audience at July's performance "The Swan Tool" at the New York Artspace The Kitchen , whereupon she sent him a few pages of her writing attempts. He noticed July's lack of formal literary training and her lack of creative confidence , but greatly appreciated the weirdness of her writing. That same year, Rick Moody published a first short story by Miranda July in the Mississippi Review, which he curated . By 2007 she published about 12 other short stories in various literary magazines. These were then collected in the short story volume No One Belongs Here More Than You , with which July won the Cork City-Frank O'Connor Short Story Award endowed with 35,000 euros . The volume became a bestseller.

Prices

  • 2004: Miranda July is # 1 in Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Indie Film"
  • 2005:
    • Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival for the film I and You and Everyone We Know (Original title: Me and You and Everyone We Know )
    • Caméra d'Or (Golden Camera) at the Cannes Film Festival
    • Best debut at the Philadelphia Film Festival
    • Audience Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival
    • Audience Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival
  • 2007: Cork City-Frank O'Connor Short Story Award for the short story book No One Belongs Here More Than You
  • 2011: Nomination of the feature film The Future for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival

reception

She is counted among a new generation of American writers who have specialized primarily in the genre of short stories . In 2007 a collection of her short stories was published under the title No One Belongs Here More Than You , which was already available in German at the beginning of 2008. The Spiegel Online -Rezensent called this collection the most exciting and most original since Raymond Carver .

With increasing popularity, July is being received as an icon of pop culture. She receives large amounts of mail from her fans all over the world, which now fills an entire room in her office. In her work, a playful lightness, hippiesque eccentricity and childlike creative freedom is expressed, which, coupled with a certain eccentricity, hits the nerve of the time. With her work and her clearly visible idiosyncrasy and style, Miranda July is a strong identification figure for younger people with hipster ambitions and an indie background.

Miranda July tries to have a decisive influence on the image of her in public. In photo shoots, as in her films, she pays close attention to all the details of her appearance. Photos by Miranda July are very narrative due to their clearly designed details.

Works

Miranda July at an author reading at Modern Times Books in San Francisco (2007)

literature

  • Jack and Al , short story published in the Mississippi Review in the fall of 2002
  • The Moves , Tin House, Spring 2003
  • This Person , Bridge, Spring 2003
  • Birthmark , short story, in: The Paris Review 165, Spring 2003; also published in: The Paris Review Book of People With Problems , Picador, 2005
  • Making Love in 2003 , short story, in: The Paris Review 167, Fall 2003
  • It Was Romance , in: Harvard Review , Fall 2003
  • The Man On The Stairs , Fence , Summer 2004
  • The Boy from Lam Kien , Chapbook, Cloverfield Press, 2005 (short story)
  • The Shared Patio , Zoetrope All-Story, Winter 2005
  • Me and You and Everyone We Know (excerpt from the script of the film of the same name), in: The Best American Nonrequired Reading , ed. by Dave Eggers, Houghton Mifflin, 2006
  • Something That Needs Nothing , short story published in The New Yorker
  • How to Tell Stories to Children , Zoetrope All-Story, Winter 2006
  • Majesty , in: McSweeney's Quarterly Concern , Issue 21, Winter 2006
  • The Swim Team , Harper's, January 2007
  • No One Belongs Here More Than You. Stories . Scribner, New York 2007 (a volume with 16 short stories, translations into Italian, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, Hebrew, etc.)
    • In German: Ten Truths. Stories . From the American by Clara Drechsler and Harald Hellmann. Diogenes, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-257-06605-0 .
  • Learning to Love You More (with Harrell Fletcher ). Prestel, Munich / New York 2007, ISBN 978-3-7913-3733-3 . (Documentation of the participatory conceptual art web project Learning to Love You More )
  • Roy Spivey (short story), in: The Book of Other People , ed. by Zadie Smith, Penguin, January 2, 2008
  • Something That Needs Nothing (short story), in: My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead , ed. by Jeffrey Eugenides, Harper, January 8, 2008
  • I Found This Funny , ed. by Judd Apatow, McSweeney's, October 2010
  • It Chooses You. McSweeney's, San Francisco 2011. (With ten interviews and photographs by Brigitte Sire )
  • The First Bad Man . Scribner, New York 2015. (Her first novel)
    • In German: The first nasty guy. Translated by Stefanie Jacobs. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-462-04770-7 .
Miranda July at the premiere of The Future , UGC Ciné Cité Bercy, Paris, France - on July 5, 2011 ( wearing a Rodarte dress )

Filmography

  • 1995–2007 participatory video project Joanie 4 Jackie : Miranda July collected, curated and compiled short films exclusively from filmmakers, which she sent to all participants and subscribers on VHS cassettes. July published one and a total of 19 Joanie4Jackie editions or "Chainletters" each year, to which she herself contributed short films. They each put in a self-authored the booklet, which they style the Riot Grrrl - and punk - fanzines designed. In 2016, Miranda July submitted the video series (approximately 300 videos, documentation and press material) to the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. In January 2017, the renewal of the project website Joanie 4 Jackie into a public archive was launched, on which some of the films can be seen.
  • A Shape Called Horse , short film (3:22 ​​min), recording of a performance by Miranda July, episode no. 1 of the Kill Rock Stars video podcast
  • 1996 Atlanta , short film (10 min), published on VHS in The Underwater Chainletter , Joanie4Jackie edition from October 1996 and on The Auto-Cinematic Video Mix Tape on Peripheral Produce (Peripheral Produce No. 1-VHS-1998)
  • 1998 The Amateurist , short film (14 min)
  • 2000 Nest of Tens , short film (27 min), released as VHS on Peripheral Produce (Peripheral Produce / Nest-VHS-2000); Actors: Polly Bilchuk, Peter Borden, Eva Rioselo, Michael Loggins, Lindsay Beamish, Richard Greiling, Miranda July, Aidan McClean
  • 2001 Getting Stronger Every Day , short film (7 min), released on DVD in 2003 on the compilation All-Time Greatest Hits on Peripheral Produce (Peripheral Produce No. 10-DVD-2003), actresses: Richard Greiling, Carrie Brownstein and Mia Cianciulli
  • 2003 Haysha Royko , short film (4 min)
  • 2003 I Started Out With Nothing and I Still Have Most of It Left , short film
  • 2006 Get Up , music video for the Riot Grrrl band Sleater-Kinney
  • 2005 Me and you and everyone we know , feature film (90 min), script and director: Miranda July, actresses: Miranda July, John Hawkes , Brandon Ratcliff u. a., engl. Original title: Me and You and Everyone We Know , IFC Films
  • 2007 Things We Don't Understand and Are Definitely Not Going to Talk About , short film
  • 2011 The Future , feature film (91 min), script and director: Miranda July, actors: Miranda July, Hamish Linklater a . a.
  • 2013 Stand up Comedy , performative short film (5:57 min)
  • 2014: Somebody , short film for Miranda July's app of the same name (10:15 min)

Performances, conceptual art and internet-based art

Miranda July at the Berlinale 2011 after the screening of The Future
  • 1995–1998: smaller performances in the context of Riot Grrrl concerts, etc. a. together with the bands Sleater-Kinney , Chicks on Speed , and Dub Narcotic , z. B. the performance Yo Yo a Go Go (1997)
  • 1998–2000: Love Diamond , first full-length performance with the support of the musician Zac Love and the artist Jamie Isenstein , performance of the performance in various locations in the USA such as B. at the New York Video Festival , in the New York art space The Kitchen , and in the Yo-yo a Go-go in Olympia
  • 2000–2002: The Swan Tool , second full-length performance in collaboration with the musician Zac Love and the media artist and programmer Mitsu Hadeishi
  • 2002: The Drifters , sound installation with 16 short stories, installed in the elevator of The Kitchen , written and spoken by Miranda July, The Kitchen-Biennale, New York. This participation in the exhibition attracted increased attention for Miranda July.
  • 2002–2009: Learning to Love You More , participative conceptual art web project together with Harrell Fletcher
  • 2002–2003: How I Learned to Draw , Performance
  • 2006-present: Things We Don't Understand and Are Definitely Not Going to Talk About , Performance
  • 2007: No One Belongs Here More Than You , concept advertising web project for the band of the same name (contains e.g. a link to the Amazon subpage of the band).
  • 2007: Auction , performance and conversation with Phil Elverum, as part of Thinking Small: The Mediated Community and The Economy of Being You at CalArts (Valencia, California) and for the Believer night on PEN World Voices (the New York Festival for International Literature)
  • 2008: The Hallway , installation at the Yokohama Triennial. The work is in the collection of the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art , Tokyo
  • 2009: Eleven Heavy Things , interactive sculpture, at the 53rd Venice Biennale . The work was installed again in 2010 in Center Lawn , Union Square Park, New York.
  • Currently running: Your World of Text , interactive conceptual art website where the audience can write their own texts
  • 2014–2015: App Somebody . Operation of the app was stopped on October 31, 2015 due to technical problems due to the great popularity.
  • 2015: New Society , Performance

Contributions to films by other directors

  • 1999 Jesus' Son , feature film (actress)
  • 2001 The Center of the World , feature film, book: Paul Auster , Siri Hustvedt , Miranda July and Wayne Wang
  • 2001 Contribution to The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal by Matt McCormick (experimental short film, 16 min) as off-screen speaker
  • 2005 Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody? , Short film (3:45 min), book: Miranda July, director: Miguel Arteta, actresses: John C. Reilly, Mike White, Miranda July and Chuy Chavez
  • 2007 Top Ranking , music video by the band Blonde Redhead , performance: Miranda July, director: Mike Mills
  • 2008: How to Make a Button (Video), book and performance: Miranda July, director: Saul Levitz, VBS.TV
  • 2009 Swim Team , short film (17 min), book: Miranda July, director: Amber Crosby
  • 2009 White Light , short film (12 min), book: Miranda July, director: Alia Raza
  • 2012 Portlandia , Comedy Series, Season 2 (guest appearance as actress)

Discography

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

Retrospective

About Miranda July

literature

  • Antje Czudaj: Miranda July's Intermedial Art. The Creative Class Between Self-Help and Individualism. Transcript, 2016 - Antje Czudaj received her PhD in American Studies on the artist Miranda July.

journalism

Movie

  • The Portland Girl Convention (1996), documentary directed by Emily B. Kingan

Web links

Commons : Miranda July  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Katrina Onstad: Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding. In: The New Yorker , July 14, 2011 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d Karen Durbin: Young Filmmaker Tells Hollywood It Can Wait. In: The New York Times , June 19, 2005.
  3. ^ Johanna Fateman: My herstory. In: letigreworld.com , accessed January 6, 2012.
  4. ↑ Miranda July: Hands off. In: rookiemag.com , September 19, 2011 (English).
  5. ↑ a b Regina Hackett: A moment with… performance artist / filmmaker Miranda July. In: Seattle Post-Intelligencer , June 29, 2005.
  6. ↑ a b c Ania Mauruschat: The Californian concept artist Miranda July. ( Memento from March 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: Zündfunk Generator, Bayern 2 , original broadcast on April 3, 2016
  7. ^ Leilani Clark: Floating in the Future. In: bohemian.com , August 24, 2011 (English).
  8. ↑ Miranda July and Carrie Brownstein's joint Barack Obama support website
  9. ↑ Margaret Talbot: Stumptown Girl. In: The New Yorker , January 2, 2012 (English).
  10. ↑ Cover of a Joanie 4 Jackie edition
  11. ↑ Website of the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (Archive 2010), accessed on January 2, 2012 ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.medienboard.de
  12. ^ Website of the film The Future
  13. ↑ a b Mississippi Review 30/03 New Fiction, Selected by Rick Moody ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / shop.usm.edu
  14. ↑ Peter Henning : Three ladies with chill. In: Spiegel Online , April 16, 2007.
  15. ^ Anne Philippi: An encounter with Miranda July. In: Annabelle , November 23, 2011.
  16. ↑ Miranda website July, accessed on January 6, 2012 ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mirandajuly.com
  17. ↑ Miranda July: Something That Needs Nothing. In: The New Yorker , September 18, 2006 (English).
  18. ^ Website Joanie 4 Jackie
  19. ^ Vimeo account for the Joanie 4 Jackie project
  20. ↑ an overview of all Joanie4Jackie issues
  21. ^ A b Mary Kaye Schilling: Miranda July Shares Her Vintage Feminist Film Archive, in: The New York Times Style Magazine, January 30, 2017
  22. ↑ Website of the Kill Rockstars Video Podcast ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / krs5rc.com
  23. ↑ The Underwater Chain Letter , Joanie4Jackie -Archiv
  24. ↑ Peripheral Produce website, The Auto-Cinematic Video Mix Tape ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.peripheralproduce.com
  25. ↑ The Amateurist on Miranda July's website
  26. ^ Website of Peripheral Produce, Nest of Tens ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.peripheralproduce.com
  27. ^ Website of Peripheral Produce, "All-Time Greatest Hits" ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.peripheralproduce.com
  28. ↑ from Independent Exposure, accessed on January 2, 2012  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.independentexposure.com  
  29. ↑ Get Up: Sleater-Kinney's last show: A retrospective , in: PitchforkMedia.com, August 28, 2006, accessed on January 6, 2012 ( Memento of January 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  30. ↑ Me and You and Everyone We Know in IMDb
  31. ^ The Future in the IMDb
  32. ↑ Miranda July: Stand up Comedy , in: Youtube (Channel Mrmirandajuly), April 24, 2013
  33. ↑ "Somebody - Miu Miu Women's Tales # 8", in: Miu Miu's YouTube channel, uploaded on August 28, 2014
  34. ↑ Miranda website July, accessed on January 3, 2012 ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mirandajuly.com
  35. ↑ Miranda July: ican. Excerpt from Yo Yo a Go Go performance 1997. In: Youtube (MrMirandajuly's channel), uploaded on November 22, 2012
  36. ↑ Mitsu Hadeishi's website, accessed January 6, 2012
  37. ↑ Learning to Love You More website
  38. ^ No One Belongs Here More Than You website
  39. ↑ a b Miranda website July, Art, accessed January 7, 2012
  40. ^ Your World of Text website , accessed January 6, 2012
  41. ^ Website of the Somebody app
  42. ↑ Kia Vahland : Let others talk. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 2, 2014.
  43. ↑ Glen Helfand: Miranda July's quietly amazing show breaks the fourth wall of the web. In: The Guardian, April 30, 2015
  44. ↑ Jesus' Son in the IMDb
  45. ↑ The Center of the World in the IMDb
  46. ^ The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal in the IMDb, accessed on January 2, 2012
  47. ↑ Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody? in IMDb
  48. ^ The Swim Team in the IMDb
  49. ↑ White Light in the IMDb
  50. ↑ Marco Maurer : Hit the bird! In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 27, 2011.
  51. ^ Excerpt from Miranda July's Intermedial Art.
personal data
SURNAME July, Miranda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grossinger, Miranda Jennifer (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist, director, actress, musician and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Barre , Vermont , United States