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September 21, 2005
Go, indie, go!: Mike MIlls
The SF Bay Guardian reports that Thumbsucker daddy Mike Mills is "working on a documentary on the development of antidepressants in Japan and another feature (and, word has it, dating... Miranda July), the 39-year-old Mills is moving away from his past in graphic design and videomaking – he designed album covers for, famously, Sonic Youth, the Beastie Boys, and Cibbo Matto and directed videos for Ornette Coleman, Frank Black, and the Blues Explosion." And he gives a shout for indie filmmaking: "That's the good thing about film – it's really just a big pirate ship, and it's like saying, 'How do you become a good pirate?' Well, any fucking way that you want. Just find your way to do it. I would put a huge vote in for doing it yourself and not believing things made at home and made for cheap or things made on video and without movie stars aren't worth doing. That's a total contradiction, coming from someone who has a film with Keanu Reeves in it, you know. But that's what I believe."
Posted by pride at September 21, 2005 01:37 PM
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