The Director
Simon Klose grew up in Lund, Sweden. He has a law degree from Stockholm University and has lived on and off in Japan, South Africa and Sweden. Bored by law school he decided to shoot his first documentary ‘Sweet Memories Garden Centre’ in the South African township Soweto. Clip or download.
Having lived on and off with Swedish musician Timbuktu his next documentary was the collage ‘Spelberoende’ on Timbuktu included on the concert-DVD ‘Funken Styr Våra Steg’.
Clip (Swedish), buy or download.
In 2007, in the documentary ‘Standard Bearer’ Klose followed Swedish rap activist Promoe to Jamaica to document his recordings with Jamaican artists. Clip, buy or download.
During 2004-05 Klose slept in the parks of Tokyo working on a documentary on the homeless truck driver Tacchan’s quest to find an apartment. The documentary’s financing didn’t go through however and 200 hrs of japanese dialogue are still waiting to be edited. The frustration of not being able to solve the financing triggered Klose to try out the crowdfinancing of TPB AFK. The documentary’s working title is 現在地 (You Are Here).
The Art Director
Finsta is one of the leading contemporary urban artists in Europe. His love for popular culture and the urban environment, in combination with a desire to be seen and to produce works available to the broad public, has made him a pioneer in the new wave of pop artists.
Finsta grew up in Lund, Sweden. He has a Masters degree in graphic design from Konstfack, University of Arts in Stockholm. He works both in the art and the commercial field, with international clients like Nike, Playstation, Burton and Mtv.
2009 Dokument Press released the book Finsta Graphics (ISBN 9185639230). Finsta runs the company Rec Mode Animation Studio with 2 partners.
Damn i love Sweden! its one of the few countries i Europe that are NOT racist and have a REAL pirate party!
Lukas: Sweden is very racist.
Not if you compare with the rest of Europe.
During your recent election for Riksdagen the debate in Denamrk centered around whether the swedes were actually just as racist as the rest of us (Europe) but just oppressing it politically and in nationwide media, alledgedly because of it being a taboo in public eyes and therefore a strict (racist) immigration policy hasn’t been politically correct to even discuss and have an open dabate about..
Sweden is not racist at all compared to the rest of the world. But sure it exists, but where does it not?
Yo mate! It seems like we have some common taste in music as well as the interest in documentary films.I will check out your work as soon as i´we got my broadband up and running. (just mooved into a new flat.)
Keep up the good work!
Good luck with the TPB-Project.
I have been waiting for this for like eva always wanted to know what made these guys tick, and the inside look to there homie style hardware
I’m wondering, will you release all of the hours of raw film so people can make their own edits? I would love it if this could happen, let me know!
and download like 500gb of film ?
Wow, as a Japan-Nerd, i’m also VERY interested in “現在地 (You Are Here)”. Why not also raise for this one? I really would help finance it.
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