I'm Hadrian Beelove, head programmer of the Cine Family, a nonprofit Cinematheque here in Los Angeles,

and I'm here with our guest today, Miranda July, who has successfully worked in many mediums,

from video art to short stories to sculptural installations.

And some of you film fans may know her best from her first film, me and you and everyone we know,

a beloved film.

But we're here to talk about her new feature film, The Future,

about a couple whose impending adoption of a cat in 30 days

spurs them to re-examine their lives.

Hi, Miranda.

Hi.

Sorry, one of the interesting things about the future to me

is how it contrasts with your last film.

You're in a really different place now than you were then.

Right. last film. You're in a really different place now than you were then. And there's a lot of

character traits about the last film that seemed somewhat significant at the time, the kind of

broad amount of characters, and it's definitely focused down. And I wondered how those limitations

maybe spoke to some of the limitations you were feeling about the remaining time that sort of

happens in life as you get a little bit older.

Right. You know, the two things kind of came together. Like after the first movie, I do remember thinking, even as I was shooting the first movie, like, oh my God, the next one has to have fewer characters, mostly because I realized you don't have very much time

with each one, and it's almost like you're just making short movies, which is probably why

my first feature was built that way. And then also, yes, as it took me longer and longer

to make the second movie, time became, you know, more of a protagonist in my life.

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