christian svanes kolding
... lives in los angeles, san francisco and copenhagen.
... has also lived in manhattan.
... has been
blogging since the late 1990s (and has never completely figured out how blogging ultimately contributes to the greater good of mankind).
... established the independent production company
farm fresh films, and several of the short fiction films that he has directed have been seen in film festivals all over the world. he has also directed music videos.
... takes
photographs. you can see his work on
flickr.
... counts ken adam, anna asp, dante ferretti, mark friedberg, k.k. barrett, and therese de prez among his favorite production designers.
... loves the production design in eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, safe, chinatown, the life aquatic, nordkraft, the shining, harold and maude, and the latest king kong.
... believes that his work as a production designer will overlap into web-based social media and films based entirely on digital media.
... keeps a modest
blog on life in
production design.
... would love one day to work with michel gondry, lukas moodysson, christoffer boe, thomas vinterberg, lynne ramsay, or any number of american directors such as dayton and ferris, phil morrison, and spike jonze, to single out just a few.
... is the founder of
hygge & lort and currently works on it during some of his spare time.
... is married to his favourite person in the world, the dashing adriana estrada.
... has three brothers (he is number two out of four. none of the four brothers reside in the same country).
... was born in
denmark, and he is
half-danish and
half-norwegian.
... has spent roughly three-quarters of his
childhood in the
united states.
... speaks danish, norwegian, and english, and can mumble along in french and spanish.
... keeps an eye on new developments in the gaming industry as well as other web-based social and visual media.
... loves the aesthetics of antonioni, malick, ramsay, glazer, romanek and wong kar wai; the humour of winterbottom, scorcese, allen, kári, solondz, and gilliam; the passion of campion, almodovar, fellini, and tykwer; the genius of gondry, kaurismaki, robinson, jeunet & caro, and ashby; the precision of payne and haneke; the bravura of vinterberg, von trier, wertmüller, sjöman, moodysson, gaghan, and gonzález iñárritu; the spiritual curiousity of herzog, rainer, and wullenweber; the coolness of cassavettes, godard, kubrick, varda, egoyan, soderbergh, and jarmusch.
... has not yet been mentioned in books, nor has he been nominated for an oscar ...yet.
... wonders if the world would be a better place for everyone if more people meditated on a daily basis.
... wishes he had more time to read.
... is a big fan of installation art and architecture.
... is inspired by the collaborative cacophony of life.
... no matter which way you cut it, he lives near the beach (four blocks in venice, california and eight blocks in copenhagen, denmark amager).
... has many, many favourite films, but, on any given day, the following films might be his all-time favourites: cul-de-sac, withnail and i, brazil, irma vep, the royal tennenbaums, 2001: a space odyssey, and after hours.
... is one of those people who wears all black (if he wants some colour, he puts on brown pants or a scarf with a little bit of colour in it, or maybe shoes that have a thin stripe of white trim towards the bottom).
