This Nameless Spectacle

This Nameless Spectacle

​​This Nameless Spectacle takes its title from American poet William Carlos Williams’s poem The Right of Way. In this poem, Williams describes the fascination with which we observe anonymous actions, the “nameless spectacles” that surround us every day, everywhere. In the film, Just tracks his two protagonists through Paris’s famous Buttes-Chaumont park. This Nameless Spectacle is presented on two massive panoramic screens that face each other. The action is mirrored and split between the two screens, bouncing from one to the other. This choreography is intended to wholly envelop the viewer in both the imagery and the narrative, simultaneously rendering the viewer a witness and an important player in the action. Dependent on the viewers’ gaze and attention that focus on the anonymous and nameless spectacle witnessed within the film, the story is complete.
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Jesper Just
Script: Jesper Just
Cinematography: Kasper Tuxen
Editing: Jesper Just, Jeppe Bødskov
Sound: Jakob Garfield
Music: Dorit Chrysler, Jesper Just
Actors: Marie-France Garcia, Swann Arlaud
Production: Anna Lena Films
Producers: Anna Lena Vaney
Executive producer: Victorien Vaney
Make Up: Yumiko Oka
Format: HD
Color: Color
Production Country: France
Production Year: 2011
Duration: 14'
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)