Biografie
Deeply inhabited by science-fiction, DJ, producer and artist Jeff Mills adopts its ideas, concepts, stories and esthetics from the outset. For him, Space is an obsession and his music almost becomes a musical science-fiction. Conquering space, his music embodies the future while both respecting the past and remaining well into the present. When he founded his own record label Axis in 1992 -a logo consisting of four triangles pointing to an invisible center-, Mills takes the rotating principle of the solar system as aesthetics, concept and model for creativity.
Jeff Mills has never wallowed in his DJ status and kept on multiplying outstanding performances. When creating Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” soundtrack in 2000 for the first time, Jeff Mills takes up with his prime inspiration made of utopia, futuristic thought and a real passion for the extraordinary worlds and scenarios offered by science-fiction. He is the master of extraordinary scenarios and borrows from science fiction the common man’s notion of Tomorrow.
Mills keeps on fusing his love for music and image. Reframing his extraordinary DJing skills in 2004 when he released “The Exhibitionist”, a real-time, unedited films capturing Mills in creative DJ motions. A multi-angle filmed collection of DJ sets, allowing him to both approach video production, while beautifully complimenting his art form on the turntables. The second series “The Exhibitionist 2” was released in 2015. In 2014, Jeff Mills has partnered with the French filmmaker Jacqueline Caux to create “Man From Tomorrow“. This film is more a portrait of Jeff Mill’s music than the man himself. A wandering, poetic and sensitive portrait, graphic and musical, full of film-maker Jacqueline Caux’s intimate perception of the futuristic sounds of the DJ/producer. Le Louvre Museum invites the Premiere showing of “Man from Tomorrow”.
(Part of Edition Carola)
Jeff Mills re-scores and performs his soundtracks live
Metropolis (1926) Director Fritz Lang, silent
The Cheat (1915) Director Cecil B. DeMille, silent
Oktober (1917) Director Sergy Eisenstein, silent
Fantastic Voyage (1965) Director Robert Fleischer, w/dialogue
Paris Qui Dort (1925) Director Rene Clair, silent
Woman In The Moon (1929) Director Fritz Lang, silent
Three Ages (1923) Director Buster Keaton, silent
Berlin – Symphony Of A Great City (1927) Director Walther Ruttmann, silent
A Trip To The Moon Director (1902) George Méliès, silent
Dr. Mabuse I– The Player (Fritz Lang), Premiere August 2022 at UFA Film Nights, Berlin