For the last two years she has even been able to support herself off her art. What's incredible is that despite her extreme hipness, July convincingly portrays some of the least hip characters imaginable. These, and many of July's characters, are completely alien to any familiar reality. And yet July inhabits them so completely that they are engaging even though you wouldn't want them coming anywhere near you in real life. The Amateurist was the grand prize winner at last year's Cinematexas Festival.
Innocence is like an art form.
They are amazing to watch disintegrate, as they frequently do both in July's films and in stage pieces such as Love Diamond . But every so often it's as though the Doris Day record skips. But in that instant you see the strain involved in working to make everything okay. The ensuing state of self-consciousness transforms many people into a compilation of others' fantasies. The woman is relieved to be free, until she finds that the plane must endlessly circle the Titan, whose gravitational pull and video cameras ensure the woman will never escape.