Just finished a two day shoot for a new film that I’ve decided to give the somewhat pretentious title ”Symiversum” (a combination of the words symmetry and universum – which of course is swedish for universe).
The film consists of a time lapse drawing chronicling the entire history of the universe and planet earth up to date – in very condensed form obviously.
Here’s a behind–the–scenes–shot of me in my nice white jumpsuit…

My short film ”Transire” is in the Labo competition in Dutch film festival ”Go Short”:
http://www.goshort.nl/_the_labo/

In the past month I’ve directed a couple of stop motion ads together with Arvid Tappert. Check them out here:

http://gifford.se/

My newest picture book ”Rufus i Underjorden” is hitting the stores today!

http://www.nok.se/nok/allmanlitteratur/titlar-allmanlitt/r/Rufus-i-underjorden-ISBN-9789127120341/

… updated 2010-10-20 – review here (in Swedish):

http://www.svd.se/kulturnoje/litteratur/unglitteratur/personligt-bildsprak-lyfter-i-dodsriket_5528155.svd

Both ”Dark Island” and ”Transire” are competing in this years Uppsala International Short Film Festival.

http://www.shortfilmfestival.com/

Colourgraded ”Transire” yesterday. Really pleased with the result. A few screenshots can be found here: http://www.jonsmellgren.com/screenshots-from-”transire”/

Look out, experimental film festivals of the world…

To see the result, go to the Gifford site.

http://gifford.se/

”Dark Island” – or ”Île Noire” as it’s called in France – has been shown on the major French–German television network ARTE. Pretty sweet…

http://www.arte.tv/fr/KurzSchluss-_23480/3165512,CmC=3165508.html

I just handed in the final illustration for my upcoming picture book – ”Rufus I Underjorden” (”Rufus in the Underworld”). It’ll hit the stores in mid-september or so. As far as I know only in Sweden…

”Dark Island”/”Den Mörka Ön” won Gold in the Swedish design competition ”Kolla!”

http://kolla.se/2010/aktuellt/