So it starts like this: Miranda July directed a rather excellent movie called, “Me You & Everyone We Know, profesional fashionista Alia Raza met one of the film’s producers (presumably at a fashion show, maybe a Matthew Barney art show?) who suggested she try and adapt one of July’s short stories (presumably from her book “No One Belongs Here More Than You“).
So out of that little meet comes Raza directing the short film, “Pure White Light,” which will feature fashion-world sattelite figures Lavender Diamond’s kooky Becky Stark and Sonic Youth doyenne Kim Gordon. Stark will star in the short playing a “lonely ingenue,” and Gordon will apparently play a “sadistic doctor.” OK Go’s Damian Kulash and fashionplate Liz Goldwyn also have roles in the short that started shooting in January. The short story is evidently about “self-identity in the age of aesthetics and consumerism. It tells the story of a woman’s journey from insecure, lonely ingenue to jaded sophisticate.” Neither actress is new to the film world. Gordon has made tons of cameos in movies over the years including Gus Van Sant’s sort-of Kurt Cobain biopic “Last Days” and more recently, “I’m Not There” and the TV show “Gilmore Girls.”
Stark has already shot her role in “City Of Ember,” a film about an underground world of people whose world of glittering lights is being forever threatened. Stark is playing a member of a singing troupe that gives hope to the subterranean dwellers and she’s also composing songs for the film.
As previously mentioned, the fruitcake neo-hippies in Lavender Diamond last appeared and performed on screen in the indie science fiction film, “One Day Like Rain.” Stark is also apparently writing a “green” movie musical about”finding true love – and about the weather.” Ok then.
She is also collaborating on a musical comedy variety show with Miranda July who is way overdue for a new movie (hint, hint).