12.12.24, 20:30, Me and You and Everyone we Know (2005)

With the crushing beauty of All Fours (2024) still in the body, there is no better opportunity to revisit Miranda July's feature debut. Back in the 1990s, July was already making her mark on the riot grrrl movement through political performance art and DIY film projects like Joanie4Jackie (1995). With tenderness and transgression, she broke taboos around loneliness, sexuality and female fighting spirit in the face of patriarchal power. Me and You and Everyone we Know revisits many of July's recurring thematic elements and combines them with a formal cinematic language that instantly elevated her as one of the most unique voices of American indie film.

Set at the crossroads between different human lives, we follow a series of eccentric characters in all their quirks, kinks and childlike purity. Central is the chemistry between shoe salesman Richard and Christine — a video artist yearning for connection. As both explore the cartography of their shared desire, Richard's young sons skim online chat boxes as ))<>((, standing for ‘pooping back and forth, forever’. Love is seemingly just around the corner, but not without its detours.