Directing Projects

Projects directed by Sydney Mills

In the music video for “The Lines,” Mills, in collaboration with Deaf dancer Lark Detweiler, blends American Sign Language, jazzy choreography, chainmail and swordplay, creating a fever dream somewhere between Flash Dance and Metal Hurlant.

L.A. WITCH — "The Lines"

Persekutor — "Suck City"

Fitness & News Editorial

backpool is a new collaborative music project by industrial-pop powerhouse Lillian “Kanga” Rivard and Ukrainian producer/musician Alex Yarmak. With Yarmak in Kiev, Ukraine and Rivard in Los Angeles, their musical partnership defies the limitations o

backpool — "i feel fine"

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The Discussion - "In The Mirror"

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Auld Spells — "Sweet Disease"

Food & Drink Spread

In the age of digital retouching and filters, we often seek an idealized version of ourselves, striving for unattainable physical perfection. Insatiable Human invites viewers to reflect on the consequences of this obsession, questioning the blurre

Roz Yuen — "Insatiable Human"

German Buildings

Inspired by Blue Stahli’s Dead Channel trilogy of albums, all named after geological minerals, Mills and McGrath imagine the inner alien landscape of an obsidian meteor fallen to earth. Viewers are taken on a journey into the rock itself as it cha

Blue Stahli — "Obsidian"

Interior Spread

In defective _________ product , Mills and McGrath weave together a string of visuals in an interplay of the synthetic and the human form. A nightmarish deluge of sound, color and textures, defective _________ product seeks to shatter the bounda

Polyfuse — "defective_____product"

Life in Portraiture

Lyrically, “Dead Gurl” ruminates on the last hours of a recently deceased young woman. Early in the development the music video, Mills decided she was not interested in creating visuals to match what the song’s lyrics describe. Instead, Mills chose

Auld Spells — "Dead Gurl"

Fashion editorial

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The Daves — "Pile Of Stolen Goods"

Interior Spread

Consumed Body Purification System is a satirical commercial for a fictional kitchen countertop appliance that brews a meal-replacement drink of its owners’ cloned and liquefied biomass, speculating a future where auto-cannibalism is the diet of ch

Consumed Body Purification System

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Magic Mirror — "Fly Back Home"