Jöns Mellgren

New commercial for Kanal 5 Play

jonsmellgren — Wed, 09 May 2012 09:20:55 +0000

Just finished a new commercial for swedish tv-channel ”Kanal 5”, advertising their online ”play” service. I think it turned out really well, so I’m featuring it here. For more commercial work, visit http://www.gifford.se/

Working on a new picture book

jonsmellgren — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:08:54 +0000

I’m currently working on yet another picture book. Check out the cover illustration here:

http://www.jonsmellgren.com/illustration/

Currently editing ”Symiversum”

jonsmellgren — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:46:43 +0000

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…

”Transire” competing in Nijmegen

jonsmellgren — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:02:32 +0000

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

Some commercial work…

jonsmellgren — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:43:32 +0000

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 new picture book in stores today

jonsmellgren — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:39:46 +0000

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

I’ve got two films competing in Uppsala.

jonsmellgren — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:32:36 +0000

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

http://www.shortfilmfestival.com/

”Transire” is here!

jonsmellgren — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:59:33 +0000

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…

I finished directing a new TV–commercial…

jonsmellgren — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:30:00 +0000

To see the result, go to the Gifford site.

http://gifford.se/

”Dark Island” shown on ARTE

jonsmellgren — Fri, 21 May 2010 14:08:14 +0000

”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