Miranda July is an American film director, screenwriter, actress and artist. Her body of work includes film, fiction, monologue, digital media presentations and live performance art (which she began while living in Portland, Oregon). July wrote, directed and starred in the films Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) and The Future (2011). Her most recent nonfiction book, It Chooses You, was published in 2011. July was born on February 15, 1974.
Miranda July is a hero of my wife Heidi and she wishes they were best friends. On that note, Heidi would like to share some biographical information about July that you won’t find on Wikipedia: “The same extraterrestrial who impregnated my mom also impregnated Miranda July’s mom, which means she and I are alien half-sisters.” Also, Heidi and I learned everything we know about making buttons from July.
I wasn’t aware of the Portland connection. Have you read “It Chooses You”? Any good? I would ask Heidi, but I’m sure she’d saying something to the effect of, “It makes Hemingway’s work look like that of a brainless, dead Gila monster.”
Ha. I have not yet read It Chooses You, but it’s on my list. I understand that the book is best considered a companion piece to The Future, since both were created at around the same time, as July obsessively read PennySaver classified ads instead of working on her second screenplay.