Posters, etc. – Joanie 4 Jackie

Big Miss Moviola poster. Cut and paste flier original, 1995. 11″ x 17″. Designed by Miranda July. July borrowed heavily from Russian Constructivist designs for this poster.

Big Miss Moviola pamphlet, cover. Xeroxed pamphlet, 1995. 11″ x 17″ folded in fours. Designed by Miranda July.

Big Miss Moviola pamphlet, inside, page 1. Xeroxed pamphlet, 1995. 11″ x 17″, folded in fours. Written and designed by Miranda July.

Big Miss Moviola pamphlet, inside, page 2. Xeroxed pamphlet, 1995. 11″ x 17″, folded in fours. Written and designed by Miranda July.

Big Miss Moviola Submission Form, page 3. Xeroxed pamphlet, 1995. 11″ x 17″, folded in fours. Written and designed by Miranda July.

A one-page How To for how to submit a video to the Big Miss Moviola Chainletter series. Flier, 1996. Designed by Miranda July and Julia Bryan-Wilson. From the collection from Bryan-Wilson.

Back cover of The Underwater Chainletter booklet, written by Miranda July and designed by July and Julia Bryan-Wilson. 1996. Dr. Wilkins was an ophthalmologist that mis-prescribed medication to an uninsured July in her early 20s, which resulted in severe health complications.

The Underwater Chainletter, Booklet by Miranda July, designed by July and Julia Bryan-Wilson. 1996. Page 6.

Big Miss Moviola at The Rexall Rose, 2403 NE Alberta, Portland, OR. Xeroxed flyer, August 1, 1996. 11″ x 17″. Designed by Miranda July.

Your Own Macaw at The Capitol Theater. Xeroxed flier, 1996. 11″ x 17″. Designed by Miranda July. A Night of the Olympia Fringe Festival. 12am, Thursday, October 24, 1996 at The Capitol Theater, Olympia WA. This is one of July’s first interactive experiments with an audience. She invited them to fold an elaborate paper macaw using origami paper tucked under their seats while an instructional origami video from the library was screened.

“The Missing Movie Report.” Photocopy master, 1996. Designed by Miranda July. July was frustrated by the lack of diversity in the movies she was receiving and realized that, for the most part, she wasn’t getting movies from girls and women of color, from people of different socioeconomic classes or from elderly women, because they weren’t making movies. So she walked around downtown Portland, Oregon, with a tape recorder and camera, attempting to document these unmade movies. In the U-Matic Chainletter Directory, she also urged others to send in Missing Movie Reports from their towns, reminding them not to be “a creepy invader” when approaching strangers. (www.joanie4jackie.com/chainletter/u-matic-chainletter/#jp-carousel-7820)

Big Miss Moviola flier, outside. Xeroxed flier, c. 1996. 8.5″ x 11″ folded in thirds. Designed by Miranda July. From the collection of Mary Celeste Kearney. This is from a letter Miranda mailed to Mary Celeste Kearney, organizer of a BMM screening at USC in April 1996. July notes on the outside of the flier that she received the tickets to Los Angeles for the screening.

Big Miss Moviola flier, page 1. Xeroxed flier, c. 1996. 8.5″ x 11″ folded in thirds. Designed by Miranda July. From the collection of Mary Celeste Kearney.

Big Miss Moviola flier, page 3. Xeroxed flier, c. 1996. 8.5″ x 11″ folded in thirds. Designed by Miranda July. From the collection of Mary Celeste Kearney.

Big Miss Moviola flier, page 4. Xeroxed flier, c. 1996. 8.5″ x 11″ folded in thirds. Designed by Miranda July. From the collection of Mary Celeste Kearney.

Big Miss Moviola ad. Xerox, 1997. Designed by Miranda July. Printed in the K Records Catalogue.

Big Miss Moviola booklet, front. Xeroxed booklet, 1997. 8.5″ x 11″ folded in half. Designed by Miranda July and Julia Bryan-Wilson.

Big Miss Moviola booklet, inside. Xeroxed booklet, 1997. 8.5″ x 11″ folded in half. Written and designed by Miranda July and Julia Bryan-Wilson.

Big Miss Moviola postcard. Xeroxed postcard, 1997. 4″ x 6″. Written and designed by Miranda July.

Xeroxed flier, c. May 1997.

“U-Matic Medicinema: You want it. You make it. It’s automatic you. The She Makes Movie Phenomenon. Medicinema: Movies for what hurts.” Screenprinting on newspaper, Summer 1997. 15″ x 23″. Designed by Miranda July. U-Matic was a professional video format, and July reclaimed the word to imply “you”-matic, emphasizing the personal. “Medicinema,” derived from July’s own health struggles with her eyes. Thus, “U-Matic Medicinema” were new words that described the curative powers of personal moviemaking. The images silkscreened in black were likely taken from a library book on experimental Eastern European theater or mime.

The Video Chainletter That Can’t Be Broke at CB’s Gallery. Cut and paste flier original, 1997. 11″ x 17″. Designed by Miranda July. 8:30pm, Friday, March 28, 1997 at CB’s Gallery (below CBGB’s), 313 Bowery Street, New York, NY.

A Nite of Medicinema with Big Miss Moviola. Xeroxed flier, front. c. 1998

A Nite of Medicinema with Big Miss Moviola. Xeroxed flier, back. c. 1998.

Miranda July & Meme America at The Stage 4 Theater. Xeroxed flier, 1998. 11″ x 17″. Designed by Miranda July. 9pm, Friday, June 12, 1998.

“Grey Gardens” at the Olympia Fringe Festival. Xeroxed flier, 1998. 11″ x 17″. Written and designed by Miranda July. Wednesday, October 23, 1998, Olympia, WA.

Silver Chainletter booklet excerpt: “Quit it Dad!”, page 6. Xeroxed booklet, 1998.

Big Miss Moviola small flier. Xeroxed paper. Written and designed by Miranda July. c. 1998. From the collection of Astria Suparak.

VHS label / mailing label, cut-and-paste original. Designed by Miranda July. c. 1998.

Joanie 4 Jackie 4Ever poster (front and back), 1998. Dimensions: 27″ x 13.5″. Written by Miranda July. Designed by Miranda July and Sean Tejaratchi. Inserted into the box of Co-Star Tape #1, curated by Miranda July. Tejaratchi was a local graphic designer known for the clip-art magazine Crap Hound, and famously generous. He not only designed many materials for July, but he also gave her an office next to his, which he had previously used for storage. Summer interns worked in this office (directly across the street from Powell’s Bookstore) and many intro videos for the compilations were shot here. Having this non-institutional support professionalized July’s early work on J4J and other projects.

Big Miss Moviola pamphlet, front. Xeroxed, 1998. 8.5″ x 11″ folded in quarters. Designed by Sean Tejeratchi.

Big Miss Moviola pamphlet, inside. Xeroxed, 1998. 8.5″ x 11″ folded in quarters. Designed by Miranda July.

Big Miss Moviola pamphlet, back. Xeroxed, 1998. 8.5″ x 11″ folded in quarters. Designed by Miranda July.

Xeroxed flier original. Designed by Miranda July. c. 1998. From an East Coast tour to Amherst, Pratt, and another school.

Big Miss Moviola postcard. Xeroxed postcard, December 14, 1999. 4″ x 6″. Written and designed by Miranda July. Website archived at: http://archive.joanie4jackie.com

Big Miss Moviola / Joanie 4 Jackie VHS tape sleeve (front and back). c. 2000. Design by Swallow Press, photos by Tae Won Yu and Topher Sinkinson. Early Joanie 4 Jackie chainletter tapes had solid cover sleeves. All VHS chainletter tapes had this sleeve design after c. 2000.

I Saw Bones poster/booklet (front and back). 2000. 20.5″ x 13.5″. Written by Rita Gonzalez. Designed by Miranda July and Sean Tejaratchi. Inserted into the box of Co-Star Tape #2, curated by Rita Gonzalez.

Some Kind of Loving video tape box cover (front and back). 2000. Designed by Miranda July, with an image from a video by Jennifer Reeder. Tape curated by Astria Suparak.

Some Kind of Loving poster (back). 2000. 17″ x 24″. Written by Astria Suparak with interviews with the artists, and Miranda July. Designed by Miranda July. Inserted into the box of Co-Star Tape #3, curated by Astria Suparak.

Tour poster for Some Kind of Loving release with Astria Suparak and Swan Tool with Miranda July and Zac Love. Xeroxed flier, 2000. 17″ x 24″. Designed by Miranda July and Sean Tejaratchi.

Page from the booklet for 2001: A Chainletter. Written by Miranda July. Designed by Miranda July and Aimee G. 2001. July explains the reason for changing the name of Big Miss Moviola” to “Joanie 4 Jackie”.

Cover of special pull-out section of The Independent Film and Video Monthly, guest edited by Miranda July, on Experimental Filmmaking. 2002. Image from Astria Suparak’s childhood diary.

“Let’s Walk Together” by Miranda July. From a special pull-out section of The Independent Film and Video Monthly, guest edited by Miranda July, 2002.

“A Missing Movie Report” by Jess Hilliard. From a special pull-out section of The Independent Film and Video Monthly, guest edited by Miranda July, 2002.

“A New Romantic T.V. Sound: Astria Suparak” by Miranda July, The Independent Film and Video Monthly, 2002. July profiles Suparak, and Suparak writes about some of the reasons she put together Some Kind of Loving for Joanie 4 Jackie (among other screening programs she toured with at the time).

“Do You Dream In Video?” Joanie 4 Jackie invitation. Xeroxed flier, 2003. 8.5″ x 11″. Designed by Bard College Joanie 4 Jackie Tutorial students.

“Who Is Joanie 4 Jackie?” Xeroxed flier, 2004. 8.5″ x 11″. Designed by Bard College Joanie 4 Jackie Tutorial students, with drawing of girl pulling her eyes by Tae Won Yu and Topher Sinkinson.

“What Is Joanie 4 Jackie?” Xeroxed flier, 2004. 8.5″ x 11″. Designed by Bard College Joanie 4 Jackie Tutorial students, with drawing by Tae Won Yu.