JERK

After more than 12 years of international touring (2009 at the figuren.theater.festin Erlangen), 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.