Known for Editing
Jacob Secher Schulsinger is an editor and director, known for his work as an editor on The Kingdom S03, Triangle of Sadness, Cow, Big Little Lies S02, The Square, The House That Jack Build, The Untamed, Sparrows, Take Me To The River, Force Majeure, Nymphomaniac: Vol. I & Vol. II, Play and Volcano. Jacob's directorial debut, the short documentary "Fini", won a Danish Academy Award, and several other international awards. His second film the feature "Matar Extraños", which he co-directed with Nicolás Pereda, premiered at the 2013 Berlin Film Festival.
Born
June 12, 1979 (age 47)
Filmography
21 films, 4 shows


Killing Strangers
2013 · 1h 3m
country: Mexico
A series of auditions is taking place in a museum-like living room. Various men improvise or deliver prepared lines, rehearse gestures and slogans, aim guns, and collapse as if mortally wounded. The theme of revolution is repeatedly invoked. In between, there are scenes of a desert landscape. Three men seeking to join the Mexican Revolution at the beginning of the last century have lost their way. Conflicts smolder among them, water is running low, and mutual mistrust is beginning to take hold. Placing the reenactment of a possible historical event alongside the preparations for it serves to underline the theatricality of every cinematic account of history. Moreover, on a kind of playful meta-meta-level, the scenes in which the actors feel their way through set pieces from a Beatles song or standard battle slogans allow the viewer to witness the simultaneous construction and deconstruction of a collective myth of revolution.
Fini
Fini
2010 · 29m
country: Denmark
Fini is in his bed. It is dark outside and he doesn't want to get up. Fini is 85 years old. He has Alzheimer's disease and therefore no short-term memory. Fini likes to say "yes" and that leads him in to a series of small adventures all reminding us about living in the moment.