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Gisèle Vienne

Jerk

Gisèle Vienne

is a French-Austrian artist, choreographer, and director. After graduating in Philosophy, she studied at the puppeteering school Ecole Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette. Over the past 20 years, her work has been touring Europe and regularly performed in Asia and America. Among these are I Apologize (2004), Kindertotenlieder (2007), Jerk (2008), This is how you will disappear (2010), LAST SPRING: A Prequel (2011), The Ventriloquists Convention (2015) in collaboration with Puppentheater Halle and Crowd (2017), which was shown at Wiener Festwochen 2018. In 2021 she directed the movie Jerk. Her latest show L’Etang based on Robert Walser’s short story Der Teich (The Pond), was created in November 2020 at the TNB in Rennes. With Dennis Cooper, Peter Rehberg and Jonathan Capdevielle, she published the two books JERK / Through Their Tears (2011) and 40 PORTRAITS 2003–2008 (2012).

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France 2021 Director Gisèle Vienne With Jonathan Capdevielle, Catherine Robbe-Grillet (Voice), Serge Ramon (Voice) Writers Gisèle Vienne, Dennis Cooper Cinematography Jonathan Ricquebourg Music Peter Rehberg Editing Catherine Detournay Produced by Gildas Le Roux (La Compagnie des Indes), Gisèle Vienne (DACM – Compagnie Gisèle Vienne), Centre National de la Danse & Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis

Jerk

After more than 12 years of international touring, director Gisèle Vienne adapts her cult show Jerk into a film. Through a long sequence shot, one witnesses the fight between the actor and his extreme role in a visceral way.

From Dennis Cooper’s short novel, based upon true events. Texas, the mid-1970s. With the help of two teenagers, David Brooks and Wayne Henley, serial killer Dean Corll slaughtered about twenty young boys and recorded these murders on film. From the prison where he serves his life sentence, David Brooks, now a ventriloquist and puppeteer, tells his story through a show he has imagined.

By acclaimed choreographer and stage director Gisèle Vienne, a gripping adaptation of Dennis Cooper’s cult horror novel based on frightful actual events.

Awards: At the 2022 Sitges – Catalonian International Film Festival, Jerk won the New Visions Award for Best Film.

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Gisèle Vienne

is a French-Austrian artist, choreographer, and director. After graduating in Philosophy, she studied at the puppeteering school Ecole Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette. Over the past 20 years, her work has been touring Europe and regularly performed in Asia and America. Among these are I Apologize (2004), Kindertotenlieder (2007), Jerk (2008), This is how you will disappear (2010), LAST SPRING: A Prequel (2011), The Ventriloquists Convention (2015) in collaboration with Puppentheater Halle and Crowd (2017), which was shown at Wiener Festwochen 2018. In 2021 she directed the movie Jerk. Her latest show L’Etang based on Robert Walser’s short story Der Teich (The Pond), was created in November 2020 at the TNB in Rennes. With Dennis Cooper, Peter Rehberg and Jonathan Capdevielle, she published the two books JERK / Through Their Tears (2011) and 40 PORTRAITS 2003–2008 (2012).

Credits

France 2021 Director Gisèle Vienne With Jonathan Capdevielle, Catherine Robbe-Grillet (Voice), Serge Ramon (Voice) Writers Gisèle Vienne, Dennis Cooper Cinematography Jonathan Ricquebourg Music Peter Rehberg Editing Catherine Detournay Produced by Gildas Le Roux (La Compagnie des Indes), Gisèle Vienne (DACM – Compagnie Gisèle Vienne), Centre National de la Danse & Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis

03.02./
04.02.
Fri/​Sat
19.30
60 min
03.02./
04.02.
Fri/​Sat
19.30
60 min
TQW Studios
€ 10

In French with English subtitles

No admission under 16 years

 
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