Snow White Cologne
Snow White Cologne is a visual poem, post-rationalising the struggle and recovery of my younger sister's drug addiction. There's love and loss, good and bad.
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Amanda EliassonDirector
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Amanda EliassonWriter
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Royal College of ArtProducer
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Project Type:Animation, Documentary, Short, Student
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Runtime:6 minutes 20 seconds
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Completion Date:June 1, 2017
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Production Budget:500 GBP
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Country of Origin:United Kingdom
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:Yes
Amanda Eliasson (b.1990) is a Swedish animation director who recently graduated with an MA in animation from the Royal College of Art, London. Now she’s working as a freelance animation director in the UK.
I’ve always loved art, never knowing it could actually be a career. I was going to study to be an air traffic controller as I secretly applied to a foundation year at Beckmans College of Design, Stockholm, and got accepted. At Beckmans I discovered animation and realised it was much more interesting for me to be able to make my illustrations and paintings move. Since then I’ve developed a deep interest in making flat images transport the viewer into a three dimensional space.
I would say my style is playful and naive in contrast to the difficult social subjects I address in my films.
Snow White Cologne, my graduation film from the Royal College of Art 2017, is made out of 3047 hand painted frames. The film is based on a true story about my sister who used to be a drug addict. I wanted to tell her story in a non judgemental way, which is why the film tackles the difficult subject 'drug addiction' in a poetic and emotional manner rather than giving the viewer straight facts about the problematics of the disease.