Something to Love

Something to Love

Jesper Just relies on cinematic conventions but also deconstructs them. His plots are neither linear nor coherent, yet they fully surrender to the sentimental and emotional triggers, while shattering the gender typing constructed by mainstream cinema. In a film charged with a film noir atmosphere and other familiar ghosts, the protagonists include a young man, an older man, a young woman, and an underground parking lot (devoid of people and cars, reminiscent of the sets of so many thrillers). When the older man is watching the young couple kissing, a whole history of cinematic gazes and scopophilia in classical Hollywood cinema emerges; however, here the woman is duplicated into a couple and it is the young man who turns to be the object of longing and yearning. Even more so, it is the kiss itself, or passion itself, that is signified as the “something to love,” the object of desire.
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Direction: Jesper Just
Script: Jesper Just
Cinematography: Kasper Tuxen
Editing: Jesper Just
Sound: Jakob Garfield
Music: Jakob Garfield
Actors: Claus Flygare, Johannes Lilleøre, Mette Føns
Format: HD
Color: Color
Production Country: Denmark
Production Year: 2005
Duration: 10'
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)