Nationality: Swedish
Field of Art: Designer, Producer, Filmmaker
Website: ellekunnos.com
Elle Kunnos de Voss, born in Sweden, is an award winning designer, producer and filmmaker with an M.A. from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Design.
The work of Kunnos is rooted in a background of visual art, design and architecture resulting in a keen awareness of narrative tied to set, space, music and movement. This was particularly emphasized in her staging of the opera “The Echo Drift”, which played at the Alfred Nobel Hall in Washington DC. The Echo Drift later opened at Prototype in New York to rave reviews. For her work on The Echo Drift, Kunnos was awarded the Opera Genesis Fellowship alongside her collaborator composer Mikael Karlsson. Aside from designing sets and costumes for stage and film, her personal work includes claymation animation, sculpture and photography.
The work is intensively collaborative and leans on musical structure and sometimes other collaborative elements such as poetry to mobilize all components into a visual whole, constructing a narrative flow. Previous Claymation works include The Grace Notes with music by Julio Nickels and La Vie En Rouze with an original score by renowned composer Mikael Karlsson (Melancholia / Royal Swedish Opera, Fanny and Alexander / La Monnaie).
La Vie En Rouze has been featured in numerous Art Film festivals and Poetry Film festivals and won the Critics Choice Award at Bangkok Movie Awards.
Kunnos is the CEO of New York based production company FRAUHAUS and works independently on filmproductions, heading up the Art Department as a Production Designer.
Under Frauhaus flag she has produced and directed multiple films and music videos, including Barry Manilow and Swedish Grammy Award winning artist Anna Ternheim.
Her narrative production credits include Don’t Hang Up, SF Studios – HBO MAX, Hammarskjöld, Unlimited Swe (NY Unit Producer), Death Comes to Pushkin, Jump Room Films.