MIKE MILLS (DIRECTOR)

:''This article is about Mike Mills, the film director. For the R.E.M. bassist, see Mike Mills.''
'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 side-project 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

Overview of works by Mike Mills

Documentary

Films

Music Videos

Record sleeves

Books

Commercials

Personal

External links

Interviews

Overview of works by Mike Mills

Documentary

★ ''Does Your Soul Have A Cold?'' (2007)

★ ''Eating Sleeping Waiting & Playing'' (Air) (2003)

★ ''Paperboys'' (2001)

★ ''Deformer'' (Ed Templeton) (2000)

Films

★ ''Thumbsucker'' (2005)

★ ''The Architecture of Reassurance'' (1999)

Music Videos

★ "All I Need" - Air

★ "Kelly Watch the Stars" - Air

★ "Le soleil est près de moi" - Air

★ "Sexy Boy" - Air

★ "23" - Blonde Redhead

★ "The Dress" - Blonde Redhead

★ "My Impure Hair" - Blonde Redhead

★ "Silently" - Blonde Redhead

★ "Top Ranking" - Blonde Redhead

★ "Afrodiziak" - Bran Van 3000

★ "Bad Ambassador" - The Divine Comedy

★ "Tempermental" - Everything But the Girl

★ "2 Kindsa Love" - Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

★ "Sometimes" - Les Rhythmes Digitales

★ "Legacy" - Mansun

★ "Stardust" - Martin Gore

★ "Run On" - Moby

★ "Walking on Thin Ice" - Yoko Ono

★ "Concrete Sky" - Beth Orton

★ "Hey Hey You Say" - Pappas Fritas

★ "Spokes" - Pond

★ "Party Hard" - Pulp

★ "1, 2, 3, 4" - Titán

★ "It's Automatic" - Zoot Woman

Record sleeves

★ "Kelly Watch the Stars" single - Air

★ "Moon Safari" - Air

★ "Playground Love" single - Air

★ "Sexy Boy" single - Air

★ "The Virgin Suicides" soundtrack - Air

★ "Root Down" EP - Beastie Boys

★ "Socks, Drugs, and Rock and Roll" - Buffalo Daughter

★ "Butter 08" - Butter 08

★ "Viva! La Woman" - Cibo Matto

★ "Runaway" single - Deee-Lite

★ "Thank You Everyday" single - Deee-Lite

★ "Experimental Remixes" - Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

★ "A Picture of Nectar - Phish

★ "Logan's Sanctuary" - Roger Joseph Manning Jr. & Brian Reitzell

★ "Washing Machine" - Sonic Youth

★ "Back to Skull" - They Might Be Giants

★ "John Henry - They Might Be Giants

Books

★ Gas Book 11

★ Humans

Commercials

★ GAP

★ Adidas

★ Nike

★ Apple Computer

★ Mastercard

★ Volkswagen

★ DuPont

Personal

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

External links

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★ Mike Mills' Website featuring a gallery of his work.

Interviews

★ ReadyMade Magazine Interview

★ Mike Mills KultureFlash interview September 2005

★ The Filmlot Interview: Mike Mills - Director of 'Thumbsucker'

★ KCRW's The Treatment: Mike Mills

★ Mike Mills Interview @ Format Mag