CHRISTOPHER MILLS HAS HAD HIS ICONIC, INFLUENTIAL WORK FEATURED IN ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE, PLAYED ON OPRAH, AND HAS SATURATED MTV, MTV2, VH1, MUCH MUSIC, AND OTHER MUSIC VIDEO NETWORKS WORLD WIDE. HIS EFFORTS HAVE GARNERED MILLIONS OF YOUTUBE HITS, HAS BEEN FEATURED ON KANYE WEST’S BLOG. MILLS HAS GIVEN RETROSPECTIVES IN RESPECTED UNIVERSITIES, GLOBAL FILM FESTIVALS, AND AT CANADA’S NATIONAL ART GALLERY. MILLS’S 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, AND SO ON.
IN PERSON, MILLS IS LOW-KEY, BUSY BRAINED, AFFABLE, SOFT SPOKEN, AND MAYBE A LITTLE RUMPLED. (YOU CAN CALL HIM “MILLSY” – THE ROADIE NAME GIVEN TO HIM BY THE TRAGICALLY HIP). HIS ENTHUSIASM FOR HIS PROJECTS AND COLLABORATORS IS ANCHORED BY HIS PASSION FOR HIS WORK. HIS RANGE HAS BEEN VARIED, OFTEN WORKING ON MULTIPLE PROJECTS FOR CULTURAL ICONS SUCH AS THE ACORN, BLUE RODEO, BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE, BUCK 65, THE DEAD WEATHER, THE DEARS, INTERPOL, METRIC, MODEST MOUSE, MANDY MOORE, SAM ROBERTS, RUSH, RON SEXSMITH, SHAD, THE STILLS, TEGAN AND SARA, THE TRAGICALLY HIP, THE WHITE STRIPES AND SO ON…(THE LIST GOES ON, REACHING BACK NEARLY 20 YEARS.)
MILLSY HAS CONTRIBUTED FOR AND COLLABORATED WITH MUSICIANS AND ADVERTISERS IN A VARIETY OF MEDIA, RANGING FROM SIMPLE DRAWINGS FOR BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE’S SEMINAL, SELF-TITLED, MULTI-PLATINUM SELLING ALBUM, (NOMINATED FOR A “BEST ALBUM ART” JUNO), TO HYPER KINETIC, MULIT-AWARD NOMINATED / WINNING, BAZILLION YOUTUBE HIT GETTING VIDEO FOR MODEST MOUSE, “FLOAT ON” (WINNER, MTV “WOODY” AWARD, NOMINATED MTV “BREAKTHROUGH VIDEO”, NOMINATED, MTV2 AWARD), 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 PLATINUM SELLING, CANADIAN CULTURAL ICONS, BLUE RODEO, THE BLUE ROAD (2008 JUNO WINNER, “BEST MUSIC DVD”).
CHRISTOPHER MILLS HAS NEVER LOST HIS ENTHUSASM FOR HIS CRAFT. HE CONTINUES TO WORK IN PARALELL WORLDS, SOMETIMES ON HIGH-PROFILE INTERNATIONAL JOBS, AND ALSO SUPPORTING NEW, UPCOMING, INTERESTING INDEPENDENT ARTISTS. HIS FOCUS REMAINS MORE ON CULTURAL POSITIONING, THAN ON TRENDS. HIS GOAL IS TO MAKE WORK THAT SHIFTS AND COMPLIMENTS THE AESTHETIC NEEDS OF ANY GIVEN PROJECT, NO MATTER WHAT CLIENT, THE MEDIUM, OR PRODUCT HE’S LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE INVOLVED WITH.
MILLSY STRIVES TO REMAIN ACCESSIBLE, HYPER CREATIVE, AND FUN TO WORK WITH.