Arts You Know What There Hasn’t Been Nearly Enough of on Slog of Late: A Post About MIRANDA JULY!
posted by on August 1 at 15:23 PM
For Charles Mudede’s special torture and your advance knowledge…
Miranda July’s visit to Bumbershoot will include a screening of her short films—or three of them, at least: The Amateurist (about captivity and control), Nest of Tens (about obsessive behavior), and Getting Stronger Everyday (which is mostly unremarkable, but stars Carrie Brownstein in a turtleneck). I don’t see that it would have hurt anyone to put the early and awesome Atlanta in the mix, but these three are an excellent introduction to July’s pre-Me and You and Everything We Know filmmaking. I’d especially recommend them to anyone who think Miranda July’s work is “quirky” or twee or cutesy. The cotton swabbing of a fat baby in Nest of Tens is not cute. It is, however, mesmerizing.
On the Bumbershoot site, you will note that they’re calling it Nest of Teens. I don’t blame them for trying, but this title makes it sound a lot more exciting than it is. It’s “Tens.” Like binary numerals.
"For Charles Mudede’s special torture..."
Wait, Charles dislikes Miranda July?
Uh, that's not a "fat baby," it's just a baby.
Well, all babies are fat. But look at those pudgy arms! So cute and weird and fat.
That picture is a sure way to make me never go see Nest of Tens.
For the first time, I'm disappointed that I'll be missing Bumbershoot this year.
I feel like what there hasn't been nearly enough of on Slog of late is Annie Wagner. Have you been busy/away or am I just imagining things? Either way, glad to see your name.
@6: Yes, I was on vacation for a week. In no time at all, you will be able to enjoy a photograph of me standing next to but remaining ignorant of an enormous mountain goat in Glacier National Park.
You kids and your fads. I still don't know what a Miranda July is. Does it have anything to do with Red October?
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