“One of the bravest things in that film was trying to have a frank exploration of children’s sexuality, which is really taboo,” says Julia Bryan-Wilson, an associate professor of art history at the University of California, Berkeley, and an old friend of July’s. She views July’s work as playing with the idea of the uncanny, which Freud defined as deriving “its terror not from something externally alien or unknown but — on the contrary — from something strangely familiar which defeats our efforts to separate ourselves from it.” 

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