Gisèle Vienne: Jerk | Sep 15 | Festsaal – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Gisèle Vienne:
Jerk
Jerk
French with English subtitles
10€/15€
Ages 16 and up
Artist Talk with Gisèle Vienne following at 15:30
The Franco-Austrian artist Gisèle Vienne is perhaps one of the most unconventional directors and choreographers in Europe. With powerful imagery and subtle soundtracks, her works often penetrate deep into the subconscious and dissect interpersonal relationships, violence and trauma in an impactful way.
Vienne’s film Jerk (F, 2021) is based on her iconic 2008 solo theater piece Jerk, which toured internationally for twelve years. The film is set in Texas in the 1970s. It is drawn from the fiction written by Dennis Cooper, which is inspired by real events. Serial killer Dean Corll kills more than 20 boys while making ultra-violent snuff films with the help of the teenagers David Brooks and Wayne Henley. During his life imprisonment, David Brooks becomes a puppeteer and creates a show in prison in which he reenacts the crimes with puppets. 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 and the disembodiment of bodies.
The screening is part of a collaboration between the Haus am Waldsee, the Georg Kolbe Museum and Sophiensæle. All three institutions bring Vienne’s work, in all its complexity, to the city as part of Berlin Art Week 2024 and present different approaches to her multifaceted practice, located between photography, sculpture and installation, film, choreography, and theatre. Performances of Crowd take place at Sophiensæle on November 14th/15th/16th, 2024. Haus am Waldsee opens This Causes Consciousness to Fracture on September 11th, 2024 (the exhibition runs from September 12th, 2024 to January 12th, 2025). At Georg Kolbe Museum the exhibition Ich weiß, daß ich mich verdoppeln kann, presenting Viennes work in the context of female avantgarde artists, opens on September 12th, 2024 (the exhibition runs from September 13th, 2024 to March 9th, 2025).
The film addresses and explicitly depicts sexualized and lethal violence as well as abuse of power against minors.
The information on accessibility is still in progress and will be updated as soon as possible. If any questions remain unanswered until then, please feel free to contact the communication department at barrierefreiheit@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 35. Please note that details may change by the day of the event. Therefore, if you find out after you have purchased your ticket that the performance is no longer accessible to you, you can contact us for a ticket return at ticketing@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 45 until 5 business days after the event (Monday through Friday between 10am and 6pm).
Early boarding
If, for artistic reasons, the door to the auditorium does not open until very shortly before the performance begins, there is the option of early boarding.
Tickets
- Reservations can be made via the ticket telephone at 030 283 52 66, Monday to Friday from 4pm-6pm
- Via the online ticket shop
- At the box office
You can also find more information about accessibility at the house here.
Director: Gisèle Vienne
Writer: Dennis Cooper
Original music: Peter Rehberg
With: Jonathan Capdevielle
With the voices of: Catherine Robbe-Grillet, Serge Ramon
Creation of the puppets: Gisèle Vienne, Dorothéa Vienne-Pollak
Creation of tattoos and drawings: Jean-Luc Verna
Make-up: Mélanie Gerbeaux
Director of photography: Jonathan Ricquebourg
Chief editor: Caroline Detournay
Sound engineer: Pierre Bompy
Chief Electrician: Georges Harnack
Chief machinist: Romain Riché
First assistant operator: Ronan Boudier
Second assistant director: Brandon Luong
Assistant director: Camille Queval
Stage manager: Antoine Hordé
Color grading: Yov Moor
Sound mixing: Mikaël Barre
Special effects: Robin Kobrynski
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). With the participation of France 3 Paris-Ile-de-France & Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne. With the support of the Ministère de la culture / Direction Générale de la creation artistique, of Image/movement of the Centre national des arts pastiques and of the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’image animée. Media partners: Berlin Art Link, Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.