A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Jon Jacobsen is an artist and photographer from Chile. Self-taught, he started creating conceptual self-portraits at age 15 in his hometown, Quintero. Jacobsen's work contains graphic, narrative images, and uses symbolism and the abstract through different digital techniques, such as photo manipulations, illustrations and .GIF images. Taking conventional portrait and self portrait as a starting point, Jacobsen covers different topics exploring the limits of the body as well as the vulnerability of beings interpreted through the use of digital formats. His interest in different disciplines has allowed him to collaborate with different artists around the world, always trying to find new ways to represent an image. His work has been exhibited and published extensively in Chile and European countries, acknowledged by magazines such as WIRED, Vogue.it, Dazed, i-D and The Yale Globalist. In 2014, Jacobsen opened his first solo exhibition called Maps. In that same year, his work called The Present was featured in The Creators Project as one of the year's breakthrough pieces. He was also a runner-up in the contest Motion Photography organized by the Saatchi Gallery in 2014. In early 2015, his work was part of the show Arte Joven Contemporáneo in the Visual Arts Museum (MAVI) in Santiago de Chile.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.