Mike Mills is a versatile artist who, in addition to music videos, also creates documentaries, commercials, short films, record covers, and skateboard graphics. He has directed music videos for artists such as Moby (Run On) and the French pop duo Air (All I Need and Kelly Watch The Stars), and designed covers for bands like The Beastie Boys (Root Down) and Sonic Youth (Washing Machine). Mills’ style and visual language appeal to many and are emulated in both visual art and pop culture. Striking in Mills’ work is the image of the outsider looking at a world that desperately wants to be perfect, and the combination of sweet and cute elements within a melancholic and sad setting.

The performance in Utrecht will be introduced by Ton van Gool of the MU in Eindhoven. Mike Mills’ exhibition “Not How, What, or Why But Yes” can be seen at the MU in Eindhoven until February 29th.

The program will be shown in two parts

20:00 Mike Mills 1
The short film Architecture of Reassurance (1999, 24 min) – The documentary Paperboys (2002, 41 min) – Video clips from Air, Les Rythmes Digitales and the Jo Spencer Blues Explosion – Commercials for Volkswagen and Mastercard.

22:00 Mike Mills 2
The short film Deformer (1996, 17 min) – Video clips by Air, Everything But the Girl – Commercials by Gap and Nike – The Air documentary “Eating, Sleeping, Waiting & Playing” (1999, 60 min)

Image design: Lava Grafisch Ontwerpers, Amsterdam