Mike Mills (director)

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Mike Mills (born 1966 in Berkeley, CA.) is a film director/music video director and graphic designer. He graduated from Cooper Union in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

He has created videos for such musical acts as Moby, Yoko Ono and Air. He has also worked as a graphic designer on promotional material and album covers for such acts as Beastie Boys, Beck, Sonic Youth, and Ol' Dirty Bastard. In addition he has created graphics for X-Girl, Marc Jacobs, and currently produces his own line of posters and fabrics called Humans by Mike Mills.

Air named the fifth song on their album Talkie Walkie after Mills.

Mills played guitar and performed background vocals with the short-lived Indie rock band Butter 08 along with Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori of Cibo Matto, Russell Simins of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, and Rick Lee of Skeleton Key. The band released one self-titled album in 1996 on the now defunct Grand Royal record label.

Thumbsucker is his feature-film directorial debut.

He has also released some of his art/documentary photography works with the two books, 'Gas Book 11'(2003) and 'Humans'(2006).


Contents

[edit] Overview of works by Mike Mills

[edit] Films

  • Does Your Soul Have A Cold? (2007, 82 min)
  • Thumbsucker (2005, 96 min)
  • Not How Or When Or Why But Yes (2004, 24 min)
  • Eating Sleeping Waiting & Playing (Air) (2003, 96 min)
  • Paperboys (2001, 42 min)
  • Deformer (Ed Templeton) (2000, 17 min)
  • The Architecture of Reassurance (1999, 24 min)
  • Ledge (1999, 1 min)
  • Hair Shoes Love and Honesty (1998, 40 min)
  • Richard June's Backyard (Kate Spade) (1998, 3 min)
  • Skating with Dave and Jared (1995, 3 min)
  • An Introduction to Harmolodics (Ornette Coleman) (1995, 11 min)
  • Lost Episode III-Cheese (Frank Black)
  • Lost Episode I-Los Angeles (Frank Black)
  • Men in Black (Frank Black)
  • 1997 CDFA Awards (Kate Spade)
  • Birthday (Kate Spade)
  • Rock Star (Lauren Hoffman)
  • Banking (Marc Jacobs)
  • Entertainment (Marc Jacobs)
  • Look Presents: Qui est-vous New York (Marc Jacobs)
  • VH-1 Fashion Awards 2001 (Marc Jacobs)
  • Bummer

[edit] Music Videos

[edit] Record sleeves

[edit] Books

  • Gas Book 11
  • Humans

[edit] Commercials

[edit] Personal

Mike Mills is currently dating performance artist and fellow film director, Miranda July.

[edit] External links

[edit] Interviews

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