News
August 2011
Stockholm's Culture Festival is showing DAY OF THE HOMINID and another short film at an outdoor event on Sergels Torg on Wednesday, the 17th and Saturday, the 20th of August between 8.30pm and 11.30pm.You can also see it at Uppsala Konserthus on Oct 1, but tickets for this event cost 50SEK.
June 2011
DAY OF THE HOMINID (Den Svarta Sjön) won the First Prize at VIDEOGUD Videokonstfestival!Watch it for free this summer at videostations in Dalarna, Gävleborg and Uppland.
The documentary SUBURBAN MADNESS we produced has made it as far as into Amnesty International HQ here in London!
Studio Upstairs have organised an event full of films and photography from last year's World Mental Health Day.
Thursday, July 7 · 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Amnesty International UK, The Human Rights Action Centre
17-25 New Inn Yard, London, EC2A 3EA
May 2011
Screenings of DAY OF THE HOMINID in May (we could call it a world tour):Kolbeinn Karlssons Mystiska Bilder exhibition as part of SPX11, at Stadsbiblioteket, Stockholm. Opens May 5th and runs until the 27th.
At the club night Lilla Ukraina, Valla Torg, Stockholm, on May 6th.
In the official selection at Urban Nomad Film Fest, Taiwan on May 6th.
It competes at VIDEOGUD Videokonstfestival (Video Art Festival) in Falun, Sweden.
An Evening of Happy Endings in New York. A retrospective of our films at Veronica People's Club in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Screens at the New Gallery, Peckham, in connection with London's Alternative Press Festival's Swedish Collection.
December 2010
Mine and Kolbeinn Karlsson's second collaboration, Day of the Hominid, is not yet completed, but already it's been accepted to the Svenska Bilder (Swedish Images) section at the 34th Göteborg International Film Festival. The festival, said to be the leading festival in Scandinavia, takes place in Gothenburg, Sweden, between January 28 - February 7.November 2010
Mine and Kolbeinn Karlsson's first collaboration, Sleeping and Dreaming of Food, will screen as part of the European Competition at Unlimited Film Festival in Cologne, Germany, on Friday November 26. I'll be there, so come and say hello!October 2010
I have now produced an award-winning documentary! First we received the Best Carnival Movie prize at the Luksuz Film Festival in Trška Gora, Slovenia. Then another one dropped in at the 37th Jornada Internacional da cinema da Bahia in Brazil; The Revelation Prize.At the Uframe International Academic Video Festival in A Coruńa, Spain, we made it to the five finalists in the documentary category and we're just happy to have been selected out of hundreds of entries for the 1st Annual Hackney Film Festival and for the Shortmoves festival in Halle, Germany - where only 20 films were selected out of 375!
September 2010
Our documentary Suburban Madness will this month screen in film festivals in Brazil, Germany, London and Spain!August 2010
I've spent the last couple of months in Sweden, working on another animation with Kolbeinn Karlsson and Kallioinia. The project is now in post-production until the end of the year. At least we managed to attract the local press. And made the front cover!Our first collaboration resulted in the 8 minute long Sleeping and Dreaming of Food and this will screen at Branchage Film Festival in Jersey, Channel Islands, in September.
July 2010
Both The Theory and Suburban Madness have been selected for the Luksuz Film Festival in Trška Gora near Krško (Slovenia). The festival runs between August 20-21st. Free camping will be available.June 2010
The test screening of The Theory was attended by Nothing Bad Magazine and today they published a review and an interview. Check it out by following this link or see the article as a pdf here.May 2010
There will be a test screening of my latest short film, The Theory, at Rio Cinema in Dalston on Saturday, May 29th.Click here to see and print the flyer. (Click the image to make it bigger)
April 2010
I'm really proud that mine and Kolbeinn Karlsson's animation, Sleeping and Dreaming of Food, will be part of this coming weekend at Shunt, which has been curated by Season Butler and Jessica Charlesworth. See the full programme here.March 2010
The documentary, Suburban Madness, that I produced last year will compete at the Brazilian film festival IGUACINE - Festival de Cinema da Cidade de Nova Iguaçu in April. This will be the official world premiere and we're pleased that the film will return to Rio de Janeiro (where the film was shot just over a year ago) for the occasion.February 2010
It's official; I'll be returning to the Cannes Film Festival in May.December 2009
The swedish magazine People as well as Dalston based The Pictures Underground Film Zine keep an eye on me in their December issues.Read the People article (in swedish) here and The Pictures interview by clicking here.
November 2009
The animation based on Kolbeinn Karlsson's comic screened at Uppsala Short Film Festival last month and received an honorary mention. It's screening again on the 19th at Stockholm Film Festival as part of the 1 km film screening.I'm one of ten directors nominated for the swedish scholarship 1 km film.
Press from the last couple of months can be found on Happy Endings website.
July 2009
Photos from this month's wedding are now up on the Photography page and the production stills from June's shoot are online on our photographer Steffan Atherton's Flickr.June 2009
Shooting one part of my next fictional short film, The Theory. In July the wedding season brings me back to Sweden to photograph another summer wedding.March 2009
The documentary Suburban Madness filmed in Rio de Janeiro is wrapped and the crew has now returned to London.February 2009
I'm going with Happy Endings Productions to the Cannes Film Festival in May and for this reason I've had a limited edition of I ♥ HAPPY ENDINGS vests screen printed. These are now available to purchase by contacting me via the contact page. They are 10 pounds each (13 pounds if you pay via Paypal and require delivery). Only 20 vests printed.November 2008
We're in pre-production with a documentary project I'm producing that will be filmed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in February 2009.Follow the project develop by reading our blog.
September 2008
The photos from August's wedding is now up on the photo page.August 2008
KonstStudio is built and launched. (Please let me know if you notice something that doesn't work or look right. It's my first attempt to build a website.)I just finished a portrait painting which was given to the couple as a wedding gift. My next challenge will be photographing a wedding in Sweden next weekend.
