.Miranda_July gives an inside look into her new film “Kajillionaire' and her artistic process.
“Kajillionaire” has taken on a new identity: it’s Miranda July’s pandemic movie. After she moved past the initial disappointment around the film’s trajectory — the movie was first slated for a theatrical release in June — she was able to connect with the film’s new context, and appreciate what viewers have been able to pick from the plot.
Through decades of creative pursuit that spans a brief musical stint in the riot grrrl scene, mixed-media performance projects, experimental and indie filmmaking and creative writing, July has cultivated friendships with people who take a similar subversive approach to art-making. Two of those friends led her to the movie’s leads — Carrie Brownstein introduced July to Wood over text, and Lena Dunham suggested Gina Rodriguez to play the family interloper and influence character.
“You’re 26 and you have a FedEx number: it’s like gold,” she says. “It’s kind of like, this is a small grant from Roseanne Barr to women filmmakers, you know?”In the opening interview of her monograph, July acknowledges money as a conduit — for power, for anxiety, for emotion. “The moment I left home I approached the world with a thief’s mind-set,” she offers in the book. Despite her success and celebrity, July is not, in fact, a kajllionaire, or even a millionaire.
What she appreciated was that it got to the heart of the matter: the messiness and imperfection of relationships with parents and relationships with her own identity as a mother, a wife, an artist. “If I was honest or talking with a therapist or friend, those issues really are central, and they’re totally uncomfortable and up in the air,” she says. Similarly, July found the process of sifting through her past work for her monograph uncomfortable — akin to reading an old journal.
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