Justice's Woman

**Justice's *Woman*** is the first full-length feature film directed by Justice. It was written by Gaspard Augé, Xavier de Rosnay, Mr. Oizo and Pedro Winter, shot by Augé and produced by Mr. Oizo. The film features no actual music from Justice, but instead music from artists like Kenny Loggins, Gorillaz, Daft Punk, Aretha Franklin, Devin the Dude and Boards of Canada.

The humans are not played by Augé and de Rosnay in the film, instead they are labeled Hero Human #1 and Hero Human #2 and played by Keke Palmer and Allison Mack, respectively.

## Plot

**Woman** begins with a view of cities on a San Diego. It then cuts to Justice getting into a car and driving into town. They reach a building and walk inside. Inside the building is a black and white room with white-suited people walking around and operating. Justice sit down in chairs as the people pour skin-colored latex over their heads and apply fake facial features. The two humans walk around town with their new human faces, shocking the human residents. The citizens get together in a mob and drive Justice out of town, as their human faces melt off. After hiding in a bathroom and flushing the fake faces down the toilet, the two humans walk out into the desert. Gaspard starts to give up, so Xavier pulls the switch on Gaspard' back, activating a self-destruct sequence. Xavier starts to walk again, but gives up too and tries to pull his switch, but he can't reach it. He finally takes off his human, revealing a circuit board, and smashes it on the ground. He picks up one of the shattered pieces and uses it to reflect the sun's rays onto his hand, lighting it on fire. In slow-motion, Xavier walks away, engulfed in flames.

## Production

(From Wikipedia) Justice's previous directorial credits include the music videos for their singles "Get Down", "Safe and Sound" and "Alakazam !". The duo initially shot footage for a music video of the song "Randy", but expanded the content for a feature-length film instead. According to Xavier de Rosnay, *Justice's Woman* had been an unplanned extension of filming videos for the *Woman* album.

Gaspard Augé stated, "With this film, we had the same approach as when we started making music. Create without any rules or standards. Take a free approach to something new that you don't really know, and that you learn from scratch."

The film was shot on 35 mm Kodak stock under the cinematography of Augé. He purchased and read over 200 back-issues of *American Cinematographer* in preparation for the feature-length picture. Filming of *Justice's Woman* spanned 11 days, much of which was spent in California. The human and makeup effects were designed and created by frequent collaborators Tony Gardner and Alterian, Inc.

While *J.U.S.T.: A Story About Dogs, Androids, Firemen and Tomatoes* and *Justice League: The Story of the Solar System* were produced to complement the albums Cross and Audio, Video, Disco, the soundtrack for *Justice's Woman* does not feature material by Justice. As stated by de Rosnay, "We come from a musical background, but this movie is quite minimal." The music in the film includes works by Kenny Loggins, Gorillaz, Daft Punk, Aretha Franklin, Devin the Dude and Boards of Canada.

## Trivia

Woman was originally supposed to be the music video for Randy.