there is nothing subtle about being human
christian svanes kolding is a film director with a lively past as a production designer (whose work included feature films, music videos and commercials) who presently divides his time between new york city, venice, california, and copenhagen.
other semi-interesting bits include:
he …has three brothers (he is number two out of four. none of the four brothers reside full-time in the same country).
he …was born in denmark, and he is half-danish and half-norwegian.
he …loves his bicycle.
he …probably eats too much cheese (fresh mozzarella, smoked mozzarella, gruyere, garrotxa, parmigiano, danish havarti, triple creme brie, chèvre, norwegian geitost from gudbrandsdal, haloumi, manchego, queso fresco, comté…
he …thinks madeleine kahn is extremely funny. was. : (
he …once rode his bridgestone mountain bike with a few friends from quito, ecuador to patagonian chile and argentina (disclaimer: the entire journey was not done exclusively on bike. there were two cargo ships involved and, occasionally, those multicolored busses which often look like school busses and are always exceptionally crowded).
he …loves the aesthetics of antonioni, malick, ramsay, glazer, romanek and wong kar wai; the humour and wit 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.
he …wishes he had more time to read.
he …is a big fan of installation art, architecture and music.
he …keeps an eye on new developments in the gaming industry as well as other web-based social and visual media.
he …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, the conversation, and after hours.
he …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).