This event is part of the 2025 Rising festival.
From DIY beginnings to Cannes Film Festival wins, we’re celebrating Miranda July’s unmistakable voice in this film retrospective.
Emerging from the Pacific Northwest as a card-carrying Riot Grrl, Miranda July’s career grew out of the movement’s DIY ethos. Before she finished high school, she had written and presented her first play at an all-ages punk club and in the years following, she set up her own distribution network for video works. Today, she is an award-winning author, a Cannes prize-winning film director, an actor, narrator, a stage performer and visual artist. What tethers all of this together is her unique voice—articulate, idiosyncratic and unmistakably her.
We’ve commissioned July to create a mini golf hole at Swingers (where she’ll tell your fortune) and, together with ACMI, we’re celebrating her screen works with a film season spanning her feature films, short films, documentaries, music videos and video art. This will include three works from the ACMI Collection rarely seen on screen, including Sex, Lies, and Videotape—Steven Soderbergh’s debut feature film which has had a lasting influence on Miranda July’s own.
