INFO
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Director |
Jacob Schill |
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Genre |
Experimental, Documentary |
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Duration |
30’ |
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Year |
2025 |
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Nationality |
Sweden, Denmark |
SYNOPSYS
Em is drowning in a river. This 18-year-old loner has watched hundreds of hours of content on the Law of Assumption: a popular belief of a new online spirituality that everything you assume will be manifest into reality. Em tries to realize this Law, but his confrontation with Death is unusual. Rather than life flashing before his eyes he is faced by his manifestation coach, Tammy, and the videos that inspired him to level up and transform.
STILLS
CREDITS
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Director |
Jacob Schill |
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Genre |
Experimental, Documentary |
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Duration |
30′ |
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Nationality |
Sweden, Denmark |
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Production |
Jacob Schill |
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Cast |
David Alexander Jensen Jada Brazil Karim Theilgaard |
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Editing |
Carl Gustav Nordentoft Alberto Dexeus |
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Sound Design |
Mia Terry |
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VFX |
Zafer Fanari |
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3D animation |
Tanya Sokolova |
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Music |
Daniel Abraham Basse |
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Consultants |
Adam Khalil Steven Zultanski |
AWARDS AND SELECTIONS
2025
World Premiere
67. Nordic Film Days Lübeck
JACOB SCHILL
BIOGRAPHY
Through staged scenarios and found footage, in narratives oscillating between the fictional and the documentary, Jacob Schill’s practise interrogates ideals of individualism and self-realization. Characterized by a draw to overwhelm and a frontal cinematography, his films and video installations present as dizzying mirror-images of an age increasingly marked by hyper-connectivity, bewilderment and confessional self-expression. Schill’s works invite viewers to stay sutured, as they face others and encounter themselves.
Born in 1993, Jacob Schill is a Swedish artist and filmmaker living in Copenhagen, DK. He holds a BFA from Valand Academy, as the youngest student to enter in over 40 years. Schill graduated in 2024 from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts under professor Jane Jin Kaisen.
FILMOGRAPHY
EM ASSUMES DEATH
2025
PERSONAL ATTENTION
2023
IMPLANTATION
2022
NEO-EUROPE
2019
CANIS
2018
I WANT YOU TO RUN
2015
MRT
2014