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October 25, 2005
Through the Mills: Mike animates the inanimate
Pascal Wyse of the Grauniad winds up the writer-director of Thumbsucker and lets him go. Wyse leaves for a moment, returning to find Mills taking a snap of her bubbly.
"It reminds me of the way the camera slides off people and on to everyday objects... 'That drifting thing is my life view,' Mills tells her. 'I do it a lot. I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life. If this was your room, the stuff on your table would be telling me as much about you as you. As someone who grew up in a house where there wasn't a lot of talking, I'm used to just looking at the world. And in general I often feel like I just don't understand what's happening. That everybody else does, but I don't quite get it. That camera technique I often call 'the alien that landed - and doesn't know what's important'... It's the can't live with, can't live without thing... The huge vulnerable-making machine that love is." [More creativity at the link.]
Posted by pride at October 25, 2005 01:03 PM
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