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_Miranda July is a 26 year-old multi-media performer and video artist based in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. In 1995 she founded Big Miss Moviola, a movie distribution network for independent women moviemakers. At the start of the year she completed her fourth short movie, "Nest of Tens", which made its world premiere at Rotterdam International Film Festival. Her previous video, "The Amateurist", has been screened at sites around the world, including "The American Century" exhibit at the Whitney Museum.

The Amateurist, 1998
Video (color, sound), 14'
Courtesy of Big Miss Moviola
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Synopsis: A "professional" woman monitors an "amateur" woman (both played by July) via video surveillance, as she has for the last four and a half years. She has never had contact with the amateur, but synthesizes a sense of communication and control through numbers, knobs and careful language.

 

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