ABOUT

“Much of the force in Hysteria comes from the performance of Jakob Bokulich… Bokulich is a sturdy and handsome actor who clearly has camera presence”
-Phil Hall, from Film Threat’s five-star review of Hysteria.

An internationally exhibited artist since the age of eighteen, today Jakob Bokulich is becoming increasingly known as an actor, writer, and director. His critically acclaimed film debut, Hysteria with Antero Alli, was loosely based on his experiences in Croatia during its war with Yugoslavia in the nineties. He delivered a notable performance in San Francisco's gem The Mission Movie by Lise Swenson, and has gone on to establish himself as a triple-threat with Happy Trees, a parody of the art world, and Entangled.

Bokulich is one of eight children, spending his childhood at the parents' gas-station in Santa Cruz, the city that was inspiration and location of The Lost Boys. At the age of seventeen he moved to Europe, where he found remarkable success as a painter, showing in galleries in Paris, Split (Croatia), San Francisco, and other cities.

Returning to California, he became active in the arts community of Oakland and San Francisco, curating a gallery, writing for the Artship Dance/Theater Co. with Slobodan Dan Paich, and participating in intensive workshops with Antero Alli, derived from the theatrical methods of Jerzy Grotowsky (documented in Orphans of Delirium). He is also an adept boxer and capoerista. Jakob Bokulich currently lives in Los Angeles, where he works as an actor and filmmaker.