Daniel Jacoby
Daniel JACOBY (1985, Peru) is an Amsterdam-based director and artist who graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona and furthered his education at the Städelschule in Frankfurt and the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. Should Auld Acquaintance be Forgot (2010) was his first foray into filmmaking. Cuculí (2011) shows his time in Japan, where he had a residency at Tokyo Wonder Site. Here, he met Yu Araki. Together they directed Mountain Plain Mountain (2018), which won a Tiger Short Award. The following year, Nehemías was nominated for the same award. His work has been screened or exhibited around the world, including at EYE Film Institute, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen and Sheffield Doc/Fest.
Filmography
(all short) Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (2010), Cuculí (2011), Ahold of Get the Things To (2014), Jagata (2016), Mountain Plain Mountain (2018, co-dir), Nehemías (2019), With the Expression of an Egg (2019), No One Cried (2021)
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No One Cried
Daniel Jacoby | 23' | Germany | World premiere
From plain white walls to bombastic and exotic backdrops: adult chat rooms are portals to people’s fantasy worlds and sexual desires. -
Nehemías
Daniel Jacoby | 16' | Netherlands | World premiere
A portrait of Christian, who migrated from the city to the jungle village of Cocachimba, Peru, where he finds himself an outsider. -
Mountain Plain Mountain
Yu Araki, Daniel Jacoby | 21' | Japan | World premiere
Sound and rhythms take centre stage in this observational documentary on Ban’ei, a rare kind of draft horse race that takes place only in Obihir