published by Prestel, which features oral histories of her expansive decades-long career as a prolific boundary-pushing filmmaker, artist, and writer never got its deserved release party.But on the day we met at her Echo Park studio in Los Angeles, masked, sitting 10 feet apart, there were some bigger issues at hand.
She acknowledges that so many of us, still weary of the coronavirus for various valid reasons, remain in our homes and are interfacing with the wave of nationwide protests and unrest on our phones, often on Instagram. I sent her an image of half a dozen members of the National Guard standing several feet away from her studio in our neighborhood. July acutely points out that they were simply stopping for fuel. “But even that is surreal,” I say, looking at the massive Humvees overshadowing Sunset Boulevard that have transformed our neighborhood into a military state overnight.