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Christopher Mills (director)

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Christopher Mills is a Canadian director, editor, animator and cinematographer. He has directed music videos for bands such as Modest Mouse, Interpol, Broken Social Scene, Blue Rodeo, Metric, The Joy Formidable, Senses Fail and Breaking Benjamin. He has also worked on commercials, short films, documentaries, projections and art album covers. Mills' style and work is "Renowned for his unique mix of live action, 2D and 3D filmmaking techniques" according to the writer Anne T. Donahue. "Mills has taken otherwise simple concepts and helped make them magical, transforming each video from a standard visual counterpart to an entirely different form of expression".[1]

Mills has had his work featured in Rolling Stone magazine and on many websites among them Kanye West's blog or MTV.com.[2][3] He played on Oprah, MTV, MTV2, VH1, Much Music, and other music video networks worldwide. Mills has given retrospectives in respected universities, global film festivals, and at Canada's National Art Gallery.[4] His work has been nominated for and has earned multiple awards, including MTV awards, MTV2 awards, Much Music Video Awards, Juno Awards, International Broadcasting Advertising awards. His video of Interpol's PDA was nominated for an MTV2 Awards in 2003 "Float On", for Modest Mouse, won the MTV "woody" award, was nominated for the MTV "breakthrough video" award, and was nominated for the MTV2 award.[5]

Mills has contributed to and collaborated with musicians and advertisers in a variety of media, ranging from simple drawings for Broken Social Scene's self-titled album (nominated for a "Best Album Art" Juno), to giant stage projections for The Tragically Hip's 2004 oft sold-out stadium tour (later co-winning the Juno for Best Music DVD), to a feature-length experimental documentary film for Canadian cultural icons Blue Rodeo, The Blue Road (2008 Juno winner, "Best Music DVD").

Videography

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Music videos directed by Christopher Mills.[6]

Year Song Band
2014 For Those Who Stay PS I love You
Alienation Morning Parade
The Terror Pulse KEN mode
Forever And Ever Royal Wood
2013 The Turn Around Eight and A Half
Secret Vasectomy KEN mode
Turn Off The Robot Burning House
Dance With Me Ra Ra Riot
Dead Walkie DAVIDS Archived 2013-09-07 at the Wayback Machine
2012 The Great Exhale Great Lake Swimmers
Nothing Is Anything (without you) Wintersleep
Cholla The Joy Formidable
Toronto PS I Love You
This Must Be The Place Belle Starr
Calm Before The Storm Imaginary Cities[7]
Canadian Girls Dean Brody
Time C. A. Smith
Heavyweight Our Lady Peace
Count On Me Cuff The Duke
2011 Taken Away Nash
Temporary Resident Imaginary Cities
Everyone Watched The Wedding Jim Cuddy
Blow Me Away Breaking Benjamin
A Heavy Abacus The Joy Formidable
Sad Robot Harmonies Nash
Not Getting Any Better Inner Party System
Whirring The Joy Formidable
2010 Expecting To Fly Metric
Collect Call Metric
Tobias Grey PostData
We, Myself And I Shad
Dance Mother Sweet Thing
Angel Street Lucie Idlout
Blue Blood Blues The Dead Weather
2009 Saviour The Dears
Disclaimer The Dears
Arizona Dust Blue Rodeo
Arlington Ridley Bent
2008 Crooked Legs The Acorn
Shutterbuggin Buck 65
Dang Buck 65
The Flood Pt.1 The Acorn
2007 Monday, Monday, Monday Tegan and Sara
Far Cry Rush
The Mary Getaway The Working Title
Same In Any Language I Nine
Missed The Boat Modest Mouse
2006 Now That I Miss Her Elefant
The Gate Sam Roberts
We Can Never Say Goodbye The Open
2005 It's Not The Fall That Hurts The Caesars
Everything Is Alright
(co-directed with Chris Grismer)
Motion City Soundtrack
Rum Is For Drinking, Not For Burning Senses Fail
The Road Leads Where It's Led Secret Machines
Collide Howie Day
2004 Vaccination Scar The Tragically Hip
Every Time It Rains Charlotte Martin
Simple Man Shinedown
Float On Modest Mouse
2003 Perfect Time Of Day Howie Day
Stars And Sons Broken Social Scene
Shatterday Vendetta Red
World So Cold Mudvayne
Have A Little Faith Mandy Moore
2002 PDA Interpol
Wonderful Andy Stochansky
2000 Silently Screaming Serial Joe
Sad Nights Blue Rodeo
Below The Stars King Cobb Steelie
1999 Rise With The Sun The Punters
Dancing With Myself The Boomtang Boys
In My Hands Natalie MacMaster
Umbrella Mayor McCA
1998 Lemonade Protein
1997 My Only Hope Miller Stain Limit

References

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  1. ^ Anne T. Donahue, "The Best New Music Video Directors Part Two", www.aux.tv, April 26, 2010
  2. ^ "Archived copy". MTV. Archived from the original on 2004-08-26. Retrieved 2012-06-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ Newman, Jason. "Indie Music Month Video Premiere: The Joy Formidable, 'Whirring'". MTV News. Archived from the original on June 23, 2016.
  4. ^ "Ottawa International Animation Festival - Offline". www.animationfestival.ca.
  5. ^ "Archived copy". MTV. Archived from the original on 2015-08-19. Retrieved 2012-08-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ "my grandfather made this". www.numberfourfilms.com. Archived from the original on 2013-04-11. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
  7. ^ "Winnipeg band Imaginary Cities releases brand new music video - CBC Manitoba". www.cbc.ca.
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