Frederik Jacobi lives and works in Copenhagen and Los Angeles. He comes from a background in mountaineering and long expeditions into the Arctic and Amazon. He worked as a high altitude cameraman and moved into documentaries when he met Lars Von Trier by chance in his neighbour’s backyard while preparing a 2.500 km long traverse of the North Coast of Greenland. Lars convinced him to bring a camera and produced the film that got him into the Danish Film School. After graduation he moved to New York to make video art. He returned to the Amazon and filmed scenes from the un-produced Antonioni script Tecnicamente Dolce for the installation The Sound of Plants Fighting for Life. The relationship between human and nature is a strong theme in his work, most recently explored in the film A Million Times, shot in the Arctic. His work includes Brother shot in Afghanistan for French composer Koudlam. Frederik jumped into screenwriting with his first feature, The Expatriate, a noir thriller set in Port-au-Prince, written for Danish director Jørgen Leth and based on his life as a honorary consul in Haiti.
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