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Miranda July is ACTUALLY updating her website and holy shit she has a MOVIE coming out!!!






"As it turns out, we can’t anticipate the movie premiere every single second of the day. In fact, that’s a pretty good way to get a stomach ache. Lets turn instead to some things I didn’t have time to show you before.
I wrote a new book! No, just kidding, it’s only a book cover. This was part of a series of bookcovers made by artists for Opening Ceremony in celebration of the NY Art Book Fair. You can still get them here. Marcel Dzama and Spike Jonze collaborated on one that involves sleepy penises. I was in a kind of dark place when I made mine, so it’s possible you should not use it to cover a high school text book (or the sleepy penises for that matter.) This one is covering Maurice, by E.M. Forster, which just happened to be the exact right size. But is also a really good book." - Miranda July

The Hallway from The Hallway on Vimeo.

I will always re-post this. this video is perfect now that were coming to the end of the year ( long hallway ).
enjoy xox

Miranda July

"We were excited about getting jobs; we hardly went anywhere without filling out an application. But once we were hired - as furniture sanders - we could not believe this was really what people did all day. Everything we had thought of as The World was actually the result of someone's job. Each line on the sidewalk, each saltine. Everyone had a rotting carpet and a door to pay for. Aghast, we quit. There had to be a more dignified way to live. We needed time to consider ourselves, to come up with a theory about who we were and set it to music.

Something That Needs Nothing"
— Miranda July (No One Belongs Here More Than You)

I see the cystal visions

Things We Don’t Understand and Are Definitely Not Going To Talk About

here is a list of things I don't understand and find no one really wants to talk about. As a result of these unspeakable queer moments, I continue to see patterns of problematic and disrespectful relational-behavior within the Toronto feminist and queer community. ( in no way do i maintain a victimized role in this - some of these complaints are unfortunate situations i am very much implicated in )

>> The politics and dynamics of queer relationality and the tensions that arise while sharing space, sexual partners, friends, creative and activist values adds to my rising anxiety regarding inclusion/ex-clusion and the problem with faux queer friends and queer cool cred

>> The building of hierarchies - including violence, oppression, and queer cool (this is a big one that manifests a currency of animosity and makes me deeply sad and conflicted )

>> cheating queers and the hate and hostility that breeds from broken hearts and failed relationships

>> the lack of inclusive and respectful community dynamics in regards to harmoniously bridging various queer circles contributes to an exclusionary ( or even tribalistic ) tension that seems to be unspeakable within so-called progressive community circles. As a result there is a pervasive disrespect socially perpetuated by queers in the creative-feminist-activist-anti-oppressive circles.



* this list is open for debate/under construction as this conversation develops further.

my goal for this summer is to make a queer community building manifesto. Something my friends and i can refer ourselves to when we're feeling these social tensions. Hopefully it could raise our awareness and even help break patterns of oppressive community behavior.

so I'm calling on all my friends, lovers and haters for solutions and suggestions. Post Pride, i think its important to reflect upon these social tensions within our current relationships. How inclusive does Toronto's queer community feel to you? how do you feel post pride? How does relational dynamics impact your celebration of sexuality? Do you feel like your community provides you with safe spaces? Lets break this down... how does our sexuality, relationships and activist realities affect our sense of belonging?
* these are pretty broad but somewhat obvious questions - inclusivity within queer communities is not a homogeneous experience but in fact really varied. I'm more so concerned with the ways spaces, celebrations and relationships between queers fracture our sense of belonging.

photo credit:
Miranda July Film Still

New M.J!

Planning on posing this summer? A little recreational posing? Why not do it with the support of props designed just for this purpose. It might be a relief to have a some help in this department, after years of free-form (and let’s face it, often inaccurate) posing. For your convenience, eleven professional props will be installed in Union Square Park in New York, all summer. If you fill a little posing coming on, hurry over.

Eleven Heavy Things
Miranda July
May 29 - October 3, 2010
Center Lawn, Union Square Park


If you're lucky enough to be in New York City this summer, then you'll have the chance to visit these new sculptures from Miranda July! Eleven Heavy Things lets you get a photo of yourself wearing an intricately painted lace head-dress cloud, stick three parts of your body through a super cool slab, and find a stranger to hug on top of a box that asks you to hug a stranger - and then maybe feel funny inside afterward! Whatever you do, it's a place to let go of your inhibitions -- or to just be a voyeur and watch people interacting with these fun social sculptures.

Eleven Heavy Things is on view in the center lawn at Union Square until October 3rd!

via got a girl crush

this makes me happy

miranda july "when i call a name" from the movie Me and You and Everyone We Know

via http://fraeuleinzucker.blogspot.com/

Sleater-Kinney "Get Up"

This is exciting!
I had no idea Miranda July directed a Sleater-Kinney video!
That shot of outter space was just as exciting as a windows 95 screen-saver! ( i'm not trying to be ironic, i really mean that. When my mom bought our first computer i was truly enamored by the various spacey screen-savers i could stare at! )

What are you waiting for? Who are you holding onto?

A lovely glorification of our awkward and futile social rituals.

...That half Nauseous Half beautiful feeling

Miranda July - Pretty Cool People Interviews from SubmarineChannel on Vimeo.

New Miranda July Photography!

Miranda July begins her Vice photo spread with these fine words:

Dear Julie,
Do you ever feel like an extra in your own life? It seems like I'm forever stuck in the background, watching other people say and do all the things I feel inside. One day I'm gonna surprise everyone with my talents. They will be laughing and crying and texting me so often that I will be annoyed.
Until then,

Sandy

JOY!

Who wants to make a movie with me?

Joanie 4 Jackie from Miranda July on Vimeo.

Oh Ms July! your riot girl bleach blonde fro and DIY ambition really makes me happy, warm and fuzzy! So when i found out that Miranda July and a group of NY college students were reviving Joanie 4 Jackie I almost pooped myself!

What its all about:

YOU ALWAYS SUSPECTED IT, AND NOW YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE:

Girls and women are making movies every day.

EVERY woman who sends her movie to Joanie 4 Jackie receives a Chainletter tape. Each tape is an unpredictable compilation of 10 lady-made movies including her own. These video Chainletters and their companion Viewer's Digests are part of a continual correspondence between women moviemakers and with you.

The first 7 Chainletters are available for you to own.

MOVIE MAKING

There's two variables on the video camera. There's the lens: The eye. This is the same eye that's watching you all the time anyways if you're a woman. Especially in public, but even when you're alone in your room. The eye is programmed into your brain. When you are making a movie you stop pretending that you aren't aware of the eye. THEY ARE LOOKING AT YOUR ASS NO MATTER WHAT YOU WEAR.
THE DAD IN YOUR HEAD WATCHED YOU MASTURBATE.
YOU BRUSH YOUR HAIR INTO THE THE SHAPE OF THE HOLE IN HIS HEART. You stop pretending that you are innocent and unaffected by the eye. You turn and face it: the camera. You look into its eye and see yourself and you say: "I see you watching me." I know you are there and I'm not embarrassed to admit it. I admit the role I play everyday in this movie made not by me. I'm not embarrassed because just surviving being watched everyday has trained me to be an expert on the eye. Every woman is an expert on the eye. An expert actress, and an expert at controlling situations while being watched. THIS IS MOVIE MAKING. And making movies means that you are a watcher. Of course you are. You have to be self-conscious all the time just to take care of yourself. So there's the eye and there's one other variable: the on/off button, which is about control. Because this is the one time that you can turn the eye off. You can keep secrets or you can tell lies or you can tell the real truth thru manipulation of the eye-on / eye-off. I'm talking about editing. Editing equals gorgeous control. DEAR DR. WILKINS, I AM MAKING A MOVIE. IT IS ABOUT OUR APPOINTMENTS. I JUST THOUGH I WOULD WARN YOU. DEAR DAD, I AM MAKING A MOVIE. IT IS ABOUT YOU. I PLAY THE PART OF YOU.

DEAR CARRIE, I AM MAKING A MOVIE. IT IS ABOUT THAT GAME WE USED TO PLAY CALLED EVERLASTING LOVE IN THE SHADOW OF THE BLANKET. I WANT YOU TO BE THE LEADING LADY.

the website

Are You The Favorite Person of Anybody?

This video was written by the fabulous Miranda July, i have become enthralled, fascinated and enchanted by her work ...I just found this short and I LOVE it.
This is a question I've been stuck with since I was 17 when my best friend was killed. After her death I was in limbo, always searching, and assessing for that 'favorite person' and of course always hoping i'd become someone's favorite person. "Are you the favorite person of anybody" haunts me in a way, because I was, and sometimes continue a search for my new favorite person. - not to say i dont have some incredible and truly favorite people in my life (because i do!) - i guess I just know what its like to ask that question and search out for my favorite person. Maybe im still searching for my 17 year old friendship with my lost friend Beth, but then again i could be looking back at that time in my life with too much nostalgia.