Jeff Mills has, in recent months, announced a film project for The Louvre and a live album released in collaboration with pianist Mikhaïl Rudy, but this week the seminal Detroit techno artist topped those stories. Mills took to social media to share that he is preparing a multimedia experience inspired by the iconic Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
In an interview with Eliptik, Mills states:
“It takes place in the year 2001 in the context of Stanley Kubrick, but it’s not in space, it’s somewhere else. The same things are happening; there’s a computer malfunction and there’s a crime, and there is changing and resetting of the universe, but it’s not in space, it’s in the ocean. Very deep. ‘The midnight zone’.”
“2001: The Midnight Zone” is billed as “a parallel sci fi story, contemporary dance, sound and cinema experience” and is set to premiere on May 31 at Cite de la Musique in Paris.