Servitudes Film #7

Servitudes Film #7

Originally conceived as an immersive architectural installation featuring eight synchronized nine-minute films on a loop, Servitudes Film #7 investigates how we comprehend agency as well as the conventional understanding of the “able” or “disabled.” This seventh installment introduces three characters: a woman, who embodies the media-created ideal of youth and female beauty and seems incapable of acting upon her desires; a child afflicted by a neurological disorder that affects the motor and sensory nerves, and a mediator between the two humans, namely the iconic One World Trade Center in New York, a phantom limb occupying the void left by the traumatic loss of the Twin Towers. The three protagonists of the piece appear as hybrids of machines and organisms, and their existence blurs the boundaries between fiction and experience. The work brims with a restrained yet intense kineticism, as its two mobility-limited protagonists internalize the skyscraper’s haunted architecture.
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Jesper Just
Cinematography: Kasper Tuxen
Editing: Jesper Just, Xavier Sirven
Sound: Jakob Garfield, Cyril Holtz
Actors: Dree Hemingway
Production: Anna Lena Vaney Films
Producers: Anna Lena Vaney, Victorien Vaney
Format: HD
Color: Color
Production Country: France
Production Year: 2015
Duration: 9'
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)