March 27th, Friday 7:00pm~ (Free)
@ The Strand Books
828 Broadway
New York, NY
212-473-1452

A discussion with filmmaker-artist Mike Mills

Perhaps best known for his 2004 film Thumbsucker, Mike Mills, the filmmaker, graphic artist, and Cooper Union alum, has been working for more than 15 years directing music videos for the likes of Air, Blonde Redhead, Yoko Ono, and Bran Van 3000, and designing album covers for the Beastie Boys and Sonic Youth, among others. Graphics Films is the first retrospective monograph on his work, and tonight Mills discusses the book with photographer, curator, publisher, and designer Tim Barber.
(from The Village Voice)

Once a month The Cinefamily will host "Family Sundays", where we will bring in people we admire and respect--artists, writers, filmmakers, musicians, comedians, or generally inspiring folk--to curate and introduce a night of films. First, they'll show lesser- seen short films that they've made, or that have been made about them--or that they just like. Afterwards, they'll show a feature that has personally influenced them, and finally they'll explain it all and take your questions too. Tickets are $12, and the show starts at 8pm.

Kicking off the series is artist/designer/filmaker Mike Mills, whose work you probably know if you ever been in the store. He's directed music videos for Sonic Youth, Yoko Ono, Beastie Boys, Blonde Redhead and Ol' Dirty Bastard, as well as the film Thumbsucker, and the documentaries Does Your Soul Have a Cold? and Deformer (about Ed Templeton). Medium is less important to Mills' work than an encompassing vision that permeates all his diverse projects. Whether it's a television commercial, a watercolor painting, or a fabric design, everything Mills concocts is suffused by his current emotional and spiritual disposition. He has chosen to show and share his thoughts about Istvan Szabo's Lovefilm, a lesser-known 1970 masterpiece from the Czech New Wave.

Come to Family at 7pm for the opening of the Boom Silk screen poster show, then walk on over to the theatre at 8pm.

FAMILY
436 N. Fairfax Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
familylosangeles@hotmail.com
323 782 9221

*FAMILY is a nice book store in Los Angeles that hosts many good art and music shows, and also has quite a few of Mike's posters etc.

Opening: Friday 30 January 2009, 7 – 11 pm
Exhibition: 31 January – 14 March 2009

Pool Gallery
Tucholskystrasse 38
Ecke Auguststrasse
10117 Berlin Mitte
Germany
fon .49.30.24342462
info@pool-gallery.com

Opening Hours:
monday to friday 12 - 20
saturday 12 - 19
and by appointment

4/24/08 (THU) 7pm~ (door open at 6:45pm)
In the Foreign Books section in ABC Aoyama Store
50 people, first come first serve
Please call to reserve your seat. 03-5485-5511 (10am~10pm)

Tokyo's art publishing house and concept mastermind Petit Grand Publishing is introducing HUMANS at their web shop. In the past, under Petit Grand Publishing's umbrella, Mike's drawing were press printed on the cloth cover of books "Today's Shopping" and "Today's Shopping 2" (books about day to day philosophy in the act of shopping by Hitoshi + Keiko Okamoto). Their third book is in the works and to be released this winter, with Mike taking on the cover art once again.

visit Petit Shop

at FAMILY store.

Mike's latest documentary film "DOES YOUR SOUL HAVE A COLD?" is screening twice at the LA Film Festival (in Westwood Village) as part of Summer Previews (look under D) program this week.

6/28/07 THU 4:30pm @ Majestic Crest Theater
6/29/07 FRI 9:30pm @ Mann Festival Theater

Ticket is $11 ea. Get tickets here (look under D).

If you are in Los Angeles area, the screenings are not to be missed!
Mike will be in attendance and will be introducing the film for both schedules.

Landscape Products design's family store CHIGO accents the modern kids' life with style. From wood toys to furniture and their original line of clothes, it's a shop for both kids and parents to indulge the latest designs, which seems to find their place confortably next to the wonderful ideas of yesterday from around the world.

CHIGO
2-37-8-101 Ebisu
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0013
Tel: +81-3-5793-5308　 Fax: +81-3-5793-5309
Hours: 12:00-20:00, 7 days a week
Subway: Hiroo (Hibiya line) 8 minutes walk
Train: Ebisu (JR line) 15 minutes walk

20.2 × 28.6 inches (B2 size) / $30 USD

"NOTHING CAN STOP POP" as a slogan, PEANUTS RECORDS is set to introduce the indie and alternative pop music and culture. You'll also find Humans there, and have we mentioned that the owner is a long time fan of Mike's?

Kamitori Center Right bld,104
3-12 Minamitsuboi Kumamoto-city 860-0848
phone:+81-096-351-6678
hours:12pm-9pm
e-mail:info@peanutsrecords.com

Mike's awaited new IFC documentary film series #1, "Does Your Soul Have a Cold?" (2007, 81min) is premiereing at SxSW in Austin, TX on March 11th, Sunday, 4pm.

There are 2 screenings for the fortunate ones who happen to be in the Austin area:

1) World Premiere! March 11th, Sunday @ 4pm at Austin Convention Center
2) March 16th, Friday @ 9pm at Austin Convention Center

Watch the film trailer here.

...and check back in for the upcoming screening schedules.

HUMANS BY MIKE MILLS @ LAUNE CAFÉ
1/20/07 - 2/28/07
café hours: 10:30am ~ 7:00pm

"LA UNE" stands for "the one and only" in French. What you chose from the menu could change your mood and decisions. Or the artwork you encountered in the space, and to learn about the artist and emotion within may affect your lifestyle in a slight yet significant way. To thread those small sparks together into a line of wonderments, LAUNE thrives on such opportunity it could offer. With luscious café menu and monthly exhibits and events that alters the mood of the space, LAUNE presents a food for your five senses. Come and 'see,' 'taste, and ' 'feel' our "one and only" offerings at LAUNE.

LAUNE CAFÉ
Hanae Mori Building 1F
3-6-1 Kita Aoyama
Minato-ku, TOKYO
[metro station: Omotesando / A1 exit]

2. From Guy Debord " On The Passage of A Few Persons Through A Rather Brief Unity of Time"
"The only interesting venture is the liberation of everyday life, not only in a historical perspective, but for us, right now. This project implies the withering away of all the alienated forms of communication."

3. From Allen Ginsberg on the writing of his poem "Howl"
"I sat idly at my desk by the first-floor window facing Montgomery Street . I had a second hand typewriter, some cheap scratch paper. I began typing, not with the idea of writing a formal poem, but stating my imaginative sympathies, whatever they were worth. As my loves were impractical and my thoughts relatively unworldly, I had nothing to gain, only the pleasure of enjoying on paper those sympathies most intimate to myself and most awkward in the great world of family, formal education, business and current literature."

4. From Pema Chodron, "The Places That Scare You"
"At the beginning joy is just a feeling that our own situation is workable. We stop looking for a more suitable place to be. We've discovered that the continual search for something better does not work out. This doesn't mean that there are suddenly flowers growing where before there were only rocks. It means we have confidence that something will grow here."

Happy New year,
Mike

HOLIDAY SHIPPING SCHEDULE
HUMANS will be on vacation 12/27/06 - 1/9/07. Our last day of shipping will be 12/26/06, and next shipping is scheduled on 1/10/07.

Happy holidays and see you in 2007.