Miranda July is a filmmaker, performing artist and writer. She grew up in Berkeley, California where she began her career by writing plays and staging them at an
all-ages club.
July’s videos, performances, and web-based projects have been presented at sites such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and in the 2002 and 2004 Whitney Biennials.
Her collection of stories,
No One Belongs Here More Than You, was published in 2007 and won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her fiction has been printed in The Paris Review, Harper’s, and The New Yorker. In 2002 July created the participatory website,
Learning To Love You More, with artist
Harrell Fletcher and
Yuri Ono, and a companion book was published in 2007 by Prestel.
She wrote, directed and starred in her first feature-length film,
Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), which won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and four prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, including the Camera d’Or. July debuted a
new performance in 2007 at The
Kitchen (NY), and is currently working on her second movie. She lives in Los Angeles.
