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Miranda July Talks
And I listen, for The Economist online. Special thanks to Roxanne for her time and help in preparing for this interview.
Ten years ago Miranda July was riding the L-Train through Chicago when she started thinking about a character she called “Richard”. She soon felt this character drawing her to the cusp of an entirely new emotional world, one more subtle than the wilfully strange zones she had been exploring in her video and performance art. It was a place she tried to map out in quick pen strokes describing the details of Richard’s life: “estranged father of two boys”; “shoe salesman”; “in love with an artist”. When the train came to a stop, she tossed her notebook back into her purse, stepped out into summer, and thought again about her complicated new character, as if to pull him into focus. “Wow,” she thought, “my first movie.”
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