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Jerk /
"Texas, 1970s. The serial killer Dean Corll kills around twenty boys and makes ultra-violent snuff films based on these murders with the help of two teenagers, David Brooks and Wayne Henley. Now sentenced to life imprisonment, David Brooks, who has become a ventriloquist and puppeteer, tells us...
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| Format: | Electronic Video |
| Language: | French English |
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| Local Note: | Kanopy |
| Summary: | "Texas, 1970s. The serial killer Dean Corll kills around twenty boys and makes ultra-violent snuff films based on these murders with the help of two teenagers, David Brooks and Wayne Henley. Now sentenced to life imprisonment, David Brooks, who has become a ventriloquist and puppeteer, tells us his story from his prison where he imagined a show. From Dennis Cooper's short story inspired by real events, a visceral experience of violence and that of the gaze are taken to the extreme. In line with genre and horror films, Jerk explores the mechanisms of violence through questions linked to the relationship of domination, incarnation and disembodiment of bodies, this violence which can begin with the gaze." |
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| Item Description: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 2021. Based on a play by Gisèle Vienne; based on the short story by Dennis Cooper. Wide screen (1.78:1). Streaming video file. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 video file (approxximately 61 min.)) : sound, color. |
| Audience: | 17 and older |
| Production Credits: | Directed by Gisèle Vienne with Jonathan Capdevielle ; script: David Cooperville. |
| Language: | In French with optional English subtitles. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online version, title from title screen (viewed 28 April 2023). |