Sirens of Chrome

Sirens of Chrome

Shot in downtown Detroit, the work follows four Afro-American women in a car as they drive through deserted city streets in total silence. The palpable tension in the Chrysler reflects the disturbing atmosphere outside. When they arrive on the roof of an old theater, now a parking lot, another woman appears in the picture. Here begins a strange and spellbinding confrontation. As curator Jennifer Frias writes, “Just’s works are often emotionally charged with ambiguous narratives that never reach a moment of conclusion. Gender, relationships, and identity are recurring themes in his work. […] Sirens of Chrome similarly takes on the complexity of the human condition, but shifts its focus on the representation and interpretation of African-American women and women in general.”
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Jesper Just
Script: Jesper Just
Cinematography: Kasper Tuxen
Editing: Jesper Just, Rikke Selin Lorentzen
Sound: Kristian Eidnes Andersen, Jakob Garfield, Ste Garfield Rasch Holm
Music: Kristian Eidnes Andersen, Dorit Chrysler, Trentemøller
Actors: Canela Cinnamon, Shawntay Dalon, Sweetie, De'yana Wagner, Tajuanna Watts
Producers: Charlie Gaugler, Brian Colasinski
Costumes: Dawn Mattocks
Make Up: Dawn Mattocks
Format: HD
Color: Color
Production Country: USA
Production Year: 2010
Duration: 12'
Contact: Perrotin Gallery France

Jesper Just

Jesper Just is a Danish artist who lives and works in New York. From 1997 to 2003, he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. His work has been presented in several solo exhibitions, in venues such as the Galerie Perrotin in Tokyo, Japan (2021) the Galerie Perrotin in New York, USA (2020), the MAAT in Lisbon, Portugal (2019), and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France (2015), whereas he has work in museums including the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Tate Modern in London, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 2013, Jesper Just represented Denmark at the 55th Venice Biennale. Jesper Just uses the language of cinema to confront and divert the stereotypical Hollywood constructs of masculinity and femininity, as well as the biased representation of minorities and people with disabilities in mainstream culture. His short films and multi-projection video installations question the mechanisms of cinematic identification and break viewers’ expectations of narrative closure by unfolding surrealist, emotionally ambiguous, open-ended, and often silent situations or encounters. Interested in how public and private spaces define and shape human interactions, Just further plays with the notion of architecture as a performer, to echo and expand his characters’ enigmatic journeys.

Filmography

2002 No Man Is an Island (short)
2003 This Love is Silent (short)
2004 Bliss and Heaven (short)
2005 Something to Love (short)
2006 It Will All End In Tears (short)
2007 A Vicious Undertow (short)
2007 Some Draughty Window (short)
2008 A Voyage in Dwelling (short)
2010 Sirens of Chrome (short)
2011 This Nameless Spectacle (short)
2015 Servitudes Film #7 (short)
2017 Continuous Monuments (short)
2018 Circuits (Interpassivities) (short)
2023 Interfears (short)