UPCOMING: 18 April -  30th May 2026

Alicia Novella Vasquez
Ansuya Blom
Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley
Gisèle Vienne
Margaret Haines
Romeo Castellucci & Societas Raffaello Sanzio
Sabina Maria Van Der Linde
T.A DÉCOR


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JERK
2021 / 60 min

GISÈLE VIENNE

Vienne’s film Jerk (F, 2021) is based on her iconic 2008 solo theater piece, which toured internationally for twelve years. The film is set in Texas in the 1970s. It is drawn from the novel of the same name written by Dennis Cooper, which is inspired by serial killer Dean Corl’s killing of more than 20 boys while making ultra-violent snuff films with the help of the teenagers David Brooks and Wayne Henley. In Cooper’s fictional speculation, Corl makes his victim into monstrous puppets, in his desire to fully ‘’own’’ them. In their new lifeless shell, he turns them into somebody else, television actors he has lusted for.

During his life imprisonment, David Brooks, represented in the film by a schizo-phenomenal performance by Jonathan Capdevielle, becomes a puppeteer and creates a show in prison in which he reenacts the crimes with puppets for an experimental class of psychology students (the camera). Using the means of genre and horror film, Jerk takes the profound experience of mechanisms of violence to the extreme: a minimalist film on questions of power relations, incarnation, disembodiment, alienation, sexuality and death.

Director: Gisèle Vienne
Writer: Dennis Cooper, Gisèle Vienne
Original music: Peter Rehberg
With: Jonathan Capdevielle
And the the voice of Catherine Robbe-Grillet
Filming location: Centre national de la danse (CN D Pantin)
A coproduction of DACM / Compagnie Gisèle Vienne, CND Centre national de la danse, MC93 – Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis and La Compagnie des Indes (Associate Produce – Gildas le Roux). 

ContentWarning: Jerk contains highly disturbing imagery, including graphic reenactments of sexual violence and murder. Please prioritize your well-being before viewing.

Reservations are open on a ceiling of 30 seats. If sold-out, a waiting list will follow.