Mike Mills (director)
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Mike Mills (born 1966 in Los Angeles) is a film director/music video director. 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. 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.
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[edit] Overview of works by Mike Mills
[edit] Commercials
[edit] Documentary
- Eating Sleeping Waiting & Playing (Air)
- Deformer (Ed Templeton)
[edit] Films
- The Architecture of Reassurance
- Paperboys
- Thumbsucker
[edit] Music Videos
- "2 Kindsa Love" Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
- "Spokes" Pond
- "Sexy Boy" Air
- "Kelly Watch the Stars" Air
- "All I Need" Air
- "Run On" Moby
- "Tempermental" Everything But the Girl
- "Bad Ambassador" The Divine Comedy
- "Walking on Thin Ice" Yoko Ono
- "Stardust" Martin Gore
[edit] Record sleeves
- Deee-Lite
- Beck
- Pulp
- Sonic Youth , Washing Machine
[edit] Personal
Mike Mills is currently dating performance artist and fellow film director, Miranda July.
[edit] External links
- Mike Mills at the Internet Movie Database
- Mike Mills KultureFlash interview September 2005
- The Filmlot Interview: Mike Mills - Director of 'Thumbsucker'
- KCRW's The Treatment: Mike Mills
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