“Whenever I’m in front of the computer its like I’m being watched, I’m reminded of a world that could watch me,” Miranda July says in a new video interview out from TateShorts.
July, whose debut novel, The First Bad Man – which was one of Huck’s favourites last year, is a writer, filmmaker, actress and artist who jumps between disciplines with ease. In the new interview released yesterday she talks about her beginnings in performance art, and gives a tour of her Los Angeles studio. She’s talked about the house in her writing before – she mentions it in the beginning of the non-fiction book of short stories It Chooses You (an excerpt which you can read for free on Amazon).
She has links to the Riot grrrl scene, and released albums on Kill Rock Stars and K Records while she was living in the Pacific Northwest. She’s also a playwright, has worked on a number of multimedia performance pieces, and acted in her own film Me and You and Everyone We Know, which won the Caméra D’or at the Cannes Film festival in 2005. In 2011 she released The Future, which draws from earlier performance work.
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