Miranda July is a performer, a writer, a filmmaker, and an instigator, in various combinations and often all at once. Her unique aesthetic, deeply idiosyncratic yet strangely comforting, will soon reach a wider audience through her first feature film, Me and You and Everyone We Know. The film premiered at Sundance, where it received the special jury prize for originality of vision, and went on to win the Camera d’Or at Cannes. Humane but unsentimental, unabashedly artsy but instantly approachable, this is a movie for just about everybody. We spoke on the phone amidst a day of promotional interviews.

—Eli Horowitz