Miranda July

It Chooses You

Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In 2009, July was struggling to write her second screenplay when she began to obsessively read classified ads. Working with a photographer, July interviewed 13 "PennySaver" sellers to create portraits of their surprisingly moving, profoundly specific realities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MCSWEENEYS
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 148mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 427g
• ISBN-13: 9781938073014
• ISBN-10: 1938073010
• Artikelnr.: 35371661

Autorenporträt

Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist and writer. She wrote, directed and starred in The Future (2011) and 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's fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper's and The New Yorker. Her collection No One Belongs Here More Than You (2007) won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and has been published in twenty-three countries. The nonfictional It Chooses You was published in 2011. In 2000 July created the participatory website Learning to Love You More with the artist Harrel Fletcher, and a companion book was published in 2007; the work is now in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She designed Eleven Heavy Things, an interactive sculpture garden, for the 2009 Venice Biennale, and in 2013 more than a hundred thousand people subscribed to her e-mail based artwork We Think Alone. In 2014 she created the audience-participatory performance, New Society, and launched Somebody, a messaging service created with support from Miu Miu. Raised in Berkeley, California, July lives in Los Angeles.