TICKETS $65

Doors 6:30 p.m.; Event 7 p.m.

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THE EXPERIENCE

The one and only Miranda July is back in Portland for this intimate talk at the Tomorrow Theater about her incredibly multi-faceted life and art (and everything in between!) as well as her latest creative endeavors. 

July is a multi-talented artist whose groundbreaking work spans film, literature, and interactive and web-based art. Her films, including Me and You and Everyone We Know and Kajillionaire, have been exhibited nationally earning accolades at festivals including Cannes and Sundance, and her innovative participatory projects, such as Learning to Love You More and We Think Alone, have redefined art in the digital age. July continues to push boundaries with her latest bestselling novel All Fours. Signed copies of the book will be available for purchase. 

Following her talk, we’ll screen her multimedia film The Future, for which the New Yorker named her performance “one of the most profound movie moments in modern cinema.”

Round out your Miranda July Carte Blanche experience by joining us for her curated film series on the theme of time/space/reality/memory/truth being in question. Join us for the full series: Random Harvest, The Truman Show, The Heiress, and Somewhere In Time.

ON STAGE: MIRANDA JULY

Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist, and writer. Her videos, performances, and web-based projects have been presented at sites such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in two Whitney Biennials. July wrote, directed, and starred in 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 Caméra d’Or. Me and You and Everyone We Know was released as a BluRay/DVD by the Criterion Collection. In 2011 she wrote, directed and starred in The Future. She also co-starred in Josephine Decker’s Madeline’s Madeline. In 2019 July directed the Sleater-Kinney video for ‘Hurry On Home.’ July’s feature film Kajillionaire, produced by Plan B and Annapurna and starring Evan Rachel Wood, Richard Jenkins, Debra Winger, and Gina Rodriguez, was theatrically released in late 2020 to favorable reviews. In 2021 she narrated the documentary Fire of Love directed by Sara Dosa.

Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s, and The New Yorker; her collection of stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You (Scribner, 2007), won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and has been published in twenty countries. She wrote a collection of essays and photographs titled It Chooses You (McSweeney’s, 2011). Her novel, The First Bad Man, became an immediate bestseller and was named one of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2015. Her book, Miranda July (Prestel, April 14, 2020), is a complete retrospective of all her work to date and narrated by more than eighty friends and collaborators. Her new novel, All Fours (Riverhead, May 14, 2024), is a New York Times bestseller and was described as “Beyond-dazzling” in a star review from Booklist.

In 2000 July created the seminal participatory website, Learning to Love You More, with artist Harrell Fletcher, a companion book was published in 2007 (Prestel); 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; it was also presented in Union Square in New York (2010) and by MOCA in Los Angeles (2011). Her email-based artwork, We Think Alone (commissioned by Magasin 3, Stockholm), launched in July 2013 with nearly 100 thousand subscribers and continued through November 2013. Other participatory art works include New Society (a performance), Somebody (a messaging app created with Miu Miu), and an interfaith charity shop in Selfridges department store in London, presented by Artangel. In late 2019 she collaborated with Margaret Qualley on a performance art piece that took place on Instagram over multiple posts. In 2020 she collaborated with Jay Benedicto to create Services, a limited edition book sculpture. Her first solo museum exhibition titled Miranda July: New Society presented by Fondazione Prada was at the Milan Osservatorio March 7, 2024 – October 14, 2024. The show spanned three decades of her work, from the early 1990s until the present.

Raised in Berkeley, California, July lives in Los Angeles.

ON SCREEN: The Future

2011. Written & Directed by Miranda July. Runtime: 1 hour 31 minutes. Rated R.

When Sophie (Miranda July) and Jason (Hamish Linklater) decide to adopt a stray cat, their perspective on life changes radically, literally altering the course of time and space and testing their faith in each other and themselves.

UPCOMING: MIRANDA JULY PRESENTS

Random Harvest: April 6 at 4 p.m. An amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life.

The Truman Show: April 6 at 7 p.m. Every second of every day, from the moment he was born, for the last thirty years, Truman Burbank has been the unwitting star of the longest running, most popular documentary-soap opera in history. The picture-perfect town of Seahaven that he calls home is actually a gigantic soundstage. Truman’s friends and family – everyone he meets, in fact – are actors. He lives every moment under the unblinking gaze of thousands of hidden TV cameras.

The Heiress: April 27 at 4 p.m. In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — who may or may not be after her inheritance.

Somewhere In Time: April 27 at 7 p.m. Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to “Come back to me”. Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early 1900s. Becoming more and more obsessed with her, by self-hypnosis he manages to travel back in time—where he meets her.