Published
Tue, Jan 28, 2014, 17:48
- The Detroit techno pioneer is the subject of a new film by French director Jacqueline Caux.
Jeff Mills is the star—of sorts—of a new film called Man From Tomorrow.
The film is by Jacqueline Caux, a French director whose work often touches on experimenters in modern and contemporary music, including the 2007 Detroit techno documentary The Cycles Of The Mental Machine. According to the press release, her latest film is less a straightforward profile of the inventive Detroiter than an impressionistic piece that draws on the mood and thematic underpinnings of his work. Man From Tomorrow is divided into two parts: the first part sets images to Mills' exclusive score for the film and features no dialog, and the second uses quotes pulled from interviews the director conducted with him. The director says there's no straightforward narrative or message in the film, though we should expect lots of the sci-fi futurism we've come to expect from Mills; as she puts it, "I wanted to give free reign to the viewer’s subjective impressions and physical sensations."
The 45-minute film is set to premiere at the Louvre in Paris on February 2nd. Further screenings are set for New York's Studio Museum on February 12th and then Berlin on February 19th, where both the director and Mills will be in attendance.