This Love is Silent

This Love is Silent

The film challenges, in a surprising way, our perceptive habits and expectations. Conjuring up, through its form and atmosphere, the style of the Nordic whodunnits, this short film presents all the characteristics of a large cinematographic production. The moment when the young man gets out of the car boot and sings the love ditty Cucurrucucu Paloma by Tomas Mendez, in a soft voice, increases the suspense and creates a disturbing effect on the viewer, even more so because as the story unfurls in a manner that defies expectations. The film plays with the discrepancy between viewer expectations and the development of the narration which focuses, in a precise and convincing manner, on the subtleties of human expression, on looks, gestures and emotions. Astonishing the viewer on many levels, the film avoids, however, any irony or derision.
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Jesper Just
Script: Jesper Just
Cinematography: Anders Morgenthaler
Actors: Johannes Lilleøre, Søren Steen, Nielsweyde
Format: HD
Color: Color
Production Country: Denmark
Production Year: 2003
Duration: 7'
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)