Film Screening

followed by an artist talk

Wednesday 1 October 2025, 6pm
Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus Wien, Akademiestraße 13, 1010 Vienna

One day after the exhibition opening at Phileas, Gisèle Vienne’s films Jerk and Kerstin Kraus will be screened at the Stadtkino. Jerk is a work of fiction, based on true events, and reconstructs the brutal crimes of American serial killer Dean Corll in a disturbing puppet show. In the 1970s, Corll murdered more than twenty boys with the help of two teenagers. The film explores the mechanisms of violence with great intensity, beginning with a dehumanizing gaze.
In Kerstin Kraus, a disturbing, seemingly sibling-like relationship unfolds between Kerstin Kraus and Frankie, the ventriloquist's dummy of her deceased, world-famous father. The film offers a brief glimpse into Kerstin’s complicated childhood, which appears to have led to a dissociative state — a split consciousness — in which she seems trapped.

This screening is dedicated Peter Rehberg, founder of the cult Viennese label Editions Mego, who composed the music for both films and to Kerstin Daley.

Following the screening, there will be a conversation between the artist and dramaturge and curator Tarun Kade.

Film ages 16 and up, Original with English subtitles
Admission is free, please register at: screening@phileas.art

• Further reading

  JERK

  Duration 60’12 “
  Based on the play directed by Gisèle Vienne (written by Dennis Cooper & Gisèle Vienne)
  Year of production 2021

  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 artist 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 CND Centre national de la danse

  A co-production
  DACM / Compagnie Gisèle Vienne 
  CND Centre national de la danse
  MC93 – Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis
  La Compagnie des Indes (Associate Producer – 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 création artistique, de Image/mouvement du Centre national des arts plastiques et du Centre National du Cinéma et de l’image animée

  Kerstin Kraus

  Duration 12’51“
  Year of production 2019/2024

  With Kerstin Daley Baradel
  Directed by Gisèle Vienne
  Scenario Gisèle Vienne, Dennis Cooper, Zac Farley
  Texts Dennis Cooper, Zac Farley
  Director of photography Jonathan Ricquebourg
  Editor Caroline Detournay
  Sound Philippe Grivel 
  Art director Gisèle Vienne
  Set Florian Sanson and Valentine Fell-Gauthier
  Costumes Jurgen DöeringMake-up and hair Mélanie Gerbeaux
  Cration of the Franky puppets Gisèle Vienne
  Puppet builder Hagen Tilp
  Photographies of the Franky puppet Estelle Hanania
  Color grading Yov Moor
  Sound mixing Adrien Michel
  Executive Producer Sacha Guillaume Bourbault
  First assistant director Guillaume Huin
  Stage management Adam Marchand 
  Production assistant Adrien Lioure and Lucie Menu
  First assistant image Céline Croze 
  Second assistant image Céline Croze 
  Second assistant image Arthur Briet 
  Chief electrician Benoit Jolivet 
  Machinist manager Thibaud Cloarec 
  Locator Mathieu Laemlé
  Assistant stage manager Fanny Bruant 
  Set assistant Luce Jalbert 
  Ripper Matthias Richebourg 
  Editor Joséphine Privat 
  Equipements Transpalux
  Studio image and sond orlando 
  Locator Agency 20000Lieux
  With the special participation of Jonathan Capdevielle and Catherine Robbe-Grillet 
  The film was finalized for the exhibition of Gisèle Vienne at the Georg Kolbe Museum Berlin. The exhibition is one part of a collaboration between the Haus am Waldsee, the Georg Kolbe Museum, and the Sophiensæle as part of Berlin Art Week 2024.

  Thanks
  Sophie Demeyer, Lucile Hadzilhalilovic, Adèle Haenel, Isabelle Piechaczyk, Natasha Rehberg, Céline Sciamma
  Vent Haven Museum
  Kolbe Museum / Eva da Silva Antunes Alves, Elisa Tamaschke, Kathleen Reinhardt and Joanna Kordjak
  Film production 2019: AgatheBermanStudio/ Agathe Berman and Aertenam/Arnaud Louvet. In association with ARTE France.
  Film production 2024: DACM, Anne-Lise Gobin, Camille Queval, Cloé Haas, and Clémentine Papandrea
  The Compagny Gisèle Vienne is supported by Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication – DRAC Grand Est, Région Grand Est and Ville de Strasbourg.

Gisèle Vienne, Kerstin Kraus, 12’51’’, 2019/2024