Chris Milk

Chris Milk is an American music video director and photographer. He has directed videos for Kanye West, U2, Green Day, Courtney Love, Audioslave, Modest Mouse, Gnarls Barkley and Arcade Fire. He also has numerous television commercials to his credit. Milk is signed to @radical.media in the United States for commercials/music videos and WME Entertainment for feature films.

Milk was the accomplice on a prank pulled on Kanye West during the filming of the music video for "Jesus Walks" in an episode of Punk'd.

Milk directed the second unit on "A Mother's Promise", the Barack Obama bio film that played before his speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2008.

Milk was awarded the "Music Video Production Association" Award for 2008 "Music Video Director of the Year".

In September, 2009 Milk photographed Kanye West using 3-D scanning and CGI for Complex Magazine's 7th Anniversary cover.^[1]

Videography

Music videos

2011

• Rome (album) - "3 Dreams of Black"

2010

• Arcade Fire - "We Used To Wait/The Wilderness Downtown"
• Johnny Cash - "Ain't No Grave/The Johnny Cash Project"

2008

• Gnarls Barkley - "Who's Gonna Save My Soul"

2006

• Kanye West feat. Lupe Fiasco - "Touch the Sky"
• Gnarls Barkley - "Gone Daddy Gone"
• U2 & Green Day - "The Saints Are Coming"

2005

• Natasha Bedingfield - "These Words" (North American Version - Boom Boxes)
• Audioslave - "Doesn't Remind Me"

2004

• Courtney Love - "Mono"
• Kanye West feat. Syleena Johnson - "All Falls Down"
• Kanye West - "Jesus Walks" (Version 2 - Chain Gang/KKK Burning Cross)
• Jet - "Rollover DJ"
• Modest Mouse - "Ocean Breathes Salty"
• John Mellencamp - "Walk Tall"

2003

• The Chemical Brothers feat. The Flaming Lips - "The Golden Path"

Television commercials

2007

• Nike "Monument", "Practice", "Grundy", "Leaving", "Passion", "Nicknames"

2006

• L.L.Bean "Testing for Life", "Mt. Washington", "The Search"

2001

• Nintendo Paper Mario "CutOut"

1999

• 3DO BattleTanx: Global Assault "The Six Million Dollar Bear"
• Terminate "Vendomatic"

year unknown

• UPN Safe Sex PSA "Stiffy"
• Telstra "Greyhounds"
• Nintendo GameCube
• Sprite "Extreme Is Dead" (spec ad)
• 3DO BattleTanx for Nintendo 64 "Teddy Bear"
• Calve "Gas Station"
• CA Energy Conservation "Supermarket"

Filmography

Short film

• Last Day Dream a man watches his life pass before him in 42 seconds http://chrismilk.com/42/

(Produced for the 42 Second Dream Film Festival Beijing China 2009, www.42x42.com)

• Weather (scene from The Weather Man)

References

External links

• Official website
• Chris Milk on mvdbase.com
• Interview (with Claire Zulkey), October 28, 2005, zulkey.com, retrieved May 4, 2006
• Chris Milk at the Internet Movie Database