Country: Denmark
Year:
Duration: 9'
A young girl, an ideal figure and also a caricature of our desires as spectators. She is sitting in an office, by herself, eating corn. There are sensors on her hands registering continuous passive movements, which are both helping her and getting in her way. Her presence is on the brink of apathy and seduction, identity and product, individual and social constructs. But above all, it is indicative of the failure to find harmony.
Biography
film director
Jesper Just
Jesper Just (1974) is an internationally-renowned artist. He graduated in 2003 from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and represented Denmark in the Venice Biennale in 2013. His works (which combine film technology and installation strategies) have been the subject of exhibitions at international institutions as the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum in Copenhaguen, the Portland Art Museum, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit. His work is included in public collections such as the Tate Modern in London, the Guggenheim and the MoMA in New York.
FILMOGRAFIA
Montag (2000), Victim as Hero (2001), Miss Lonelyheart (2002), Boys Keep Swinging (2002), The Man Who Strayed (2002), No Man Is an Island (2002), This Love Is Silent (2003), Invitation to Love (2003), No Man Is an Island II (2004), The Sweetest Embrace of All (2004), A Fine Romance (2004), Bliss and Heaven (2004), The Lonely Villa (2004), Something to Love (2005), It Will All End in Tears (2006), A Vicious Undertow (2007), Some Draughty Window (2007), A Question of Silence (2008), A Room of One’s Own (2008), A Voyage in Dwelling (2008), Romantic Delusions (2008), Sirens of Chrome (2010), This Nameless Spectacle (2011), This Is a Landscape of Desire (2013), Intercourses (2013), What a Feeling (2014), Servitudes - Film 7 (2015).
Declaration
film director
“The Young Girl is not an individual but a construct: she lacks selfhood, discarding her individuality in order to replace it with a manufactured body and persona; she herself cannot create, she can only to be used for creation in an act of recreation; she cannot criticize a system whose existence inherently begets her existence. This tension is expressed in her actions: as she eats the corn, her hands are restrained. Even the corn itself relates back to the political system, a world of GMOs and capital gain. She too is modified, manipulated, a pawn in a power play that is both hidden and transparent.”
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Jesper Just
fotografia/cinematography
Kasper Tuxen
montaggio/film editing
Jesper Just, Xavier Sirven
suono/sound
Jakob Garfield, Cyril Holtz
interprete/cast
Dree Hemingway
produttori/producers
Anna Lena Vaney, Victorien Vaney
produzione/production
Anna Lena Films
contatti/contacts
Anna Lena Vaney Films
annalenavaney@mac.com
www.annalenafilms.com
Jesper Just
fotografia/cinematography
Kasper Tuxen
montaggio/film editing
Jesper Just, Xavier Sirven
suono/sound
Jakob Garfield, Cyril Holtz
interprete/cast
Dree Hemingway
produttori/producers
Anna Lena Vaney, Victorien Vaney
produzione/production
Anna Lena Films
contatti/contacts
Anna Lena Vaney Films
annalenavaney@mac.com
www.annalenafilms.com
