>> Jeff Mills
bio: The first feature film of Buster Keaton ?The Three Ages? was a great success immediately at release, a corner stone for Keaton?s work and a Master Piece of silent cinema. The film tells the stories of seduction and love between the sexes through three ages of human History: the Stone Age, the Roman age, and the Modern time. Hilarious and absolutely contemporary, this film finds with the new score composed by Jeff Mills the exact sound that could revive its timeless appeal.
Considered as a funding member of the Electronic Music genre, Mills has been an influential Composer and DJ for the last fifteen years. Travelling across the world, he brought everywhere the sounds of the Detroit Techno; now based between Berlin and Chicago, Mills became an inevitable guest on all prestigious Electronic scenes, and sales his records worldwide. His long lasting love-affair with movies that already made him compose a new score for Fritz Lang?s ?Metropolis? and pieces for Claire Denis films, brings him today to compose an Electronic-Jazzy magnificent soundtrack for this Keaton?s classical film.
Alongside the image and sound restoration programme launched by MK2 for silent cinema classics (e.g. The Charlie Chaplin catalogue), MK2 Music is calling leading contemporary composers from different cultural and musical horizons to provide a new score for Keaton?s Master Pieces. Joe Hisaishi (Japan) version for Keaton?s ?The General? preformed at a special projection in the last Cannes Festival started this ambitious project, to create musical versions as a standard reference for silent cinema?s heritage
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