In this interview, she reflects on her formative conversations – both with herself and with others – and discusses her drive for bracing emotional honesty. July’s work is often funny, but it is a dark, gallows humor, unafraid to confront death, perversion, loneliness, alienation, and emptiness. (In the first scene of Me and You, a man sets his own hand on fire.) The snowman’s head may be a costume, but it is a mask that tells the truth. The snowman cannot last past winter; it is a reminder of fleeting existence and mortality.
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