Some Draughty Window

Some Draughty Window

An elderly subject appears as though caught in the midst of a larger narrative. As the figure exhales onto the mirror of a public restroom, a mist gradually fills the space, revealing visions of a forest. In this shifting environment, the individual begins to float, their features slowly morphing from masculine to feminine. Corporeal, social, and environmental forms are all transmuted in the enveloping, chimeric fog. Defying linear storytelling, and other filmic tropes, Just’s work disrupts conventional codes of gender, age, and identity, invoking themes of representation, self-fashioning, and agency.
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Direction: Jesper Just
Script: Jesper Just
Cinematography: Kasper Tuxen
Editing: Jesper Just, Rikke Selin Lorentzen
Sound: Jakob Garfield
Music: Dorit Chrysler
Actors: Marie-Louise Coninck
Producers: Charlie Gaugler
Costumes: Jane Marshall Whittaker
Make Up: Fatima Louborg
Format: HD
Color: Color
Production Country: Denmark
Production Year: 2007
Duration: 8'
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)