Miranda July, 1974

Miranda July is a performing artist, a writer and a filmmaker. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited at The Kitchen, at the Guggenheim Museum, at the Museum of Modern Art, and in the 2002 and 2004 Whitney Biennials. She wrote, acted in and directed her first feature film, "Me and You and Everyone We Know", in 2005. It was awarded the Caméra d’or at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival and the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, also in 2005. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review and Zoetrope. Her collection of short stories "No One Belongs Here More Than You", published by Scribner in 2007, has been defined as "a stunning debut, the work of a writer with a spectacularly original and compelling voice."

"Haysha Royko", is a single long take. Three people negotiate space and energy in the waiting room of the Portland Airport. Color halos project from the bodies of the three individuals, apparently unaware of being recorded. In an off beat and ironic way, the halos indicate the passengers’ subconscious vying for a space and territory. The title stems from the name of a woman the artist casually encountered at the time she was shooting the video. In "Haysha Royko", an apparently anodyne moment is given significance by the artist, whose work, with grace and sensitivity, often points out the idiosyncrasies and the odd logic of casual everyday events.