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Miranda July

Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist, and writer. July’s collection of stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You, won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and has been published in twenty-three countries. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s, and The New Yorker; It Chooses You was her first book of non-fiction. She wrote, directed and starred in The Future and Me and You and Everyone We Know—winner of the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Special Jury Prize at Sundance. July’s participatory art works include the website *Learning to Love You...

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Alejandro Cesarco Open Studio: Storytelling

Activity

The proposed exercise consists in reutilizing newspaper photographs to tell new stories.

Stories help us understand and communicate reality to others and ourselves, and thus have a very powerful role in society. If we distrust or question the narrative that is being presented to us, or if we create different narratives, could we be, in a way, creating different realities?

Step 1

Leaf through your local newspaper and cut out a group of images that you find ambiguous, startling, captivating, inviting, strange, comical, or familiar. In other words, choose any image...

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