Savannah Knoop

The literary persona JT LeRoy visiting Stockholm, Sweden in 2002, on a promotion tour for the novel "Sarah". Framed by footage of US highways and Heaviness "Curtains of Rain".

L'histoire d'une enfance déchirée, vue par les yeux d'un petit garçon, Jérémie, et de sa mère, Sarah, jeune femme impulsive, insatiable et profondément perdue qui se prostitue pour des routiers sur des aires d'autoroute dans le Sud des Etats-Unis. On suit Jérémie ballotté entre ses parents adoptifs, ses grands-parents chrétiens fondamentalistes et une vie d'errance sur la route avec Sarah, au fil des aires d'autoroute, des taudis, des motels miteux et des clubs de strip-tease fréquentés par une faune louche de prédateurs, de junkies et de criminels. Sans cesse soumis à des environnements nouveaux et dangereux, à une succession de substituts de pères minables et à la descente de sa mère dans une folie nourrie de drogue, Jérémie est plongé de force dans un combat désespéré pour survivre et grandir.

New York magazine’s October 2005 issue sent shockwaves through the literary world when it unmasked “it boy” wunderkind JT LeRoy, whose tough prose about his sordid childhood had captivated icons and luminaries internationally. It turned out LeRoy didn’t actually exist. He was dreamed up by 40-year-old San Francisco punk rocker and phone sex operator, Laura Albert.

Enter JOAN, a warm, eccentric and sporting writer, and LUIS. The exchange becomes a dance between strangers of assumptions and moral calculations. Directed and written by Savannah Knoop. Produced by Jed Root. Starring Alessandro Magania.

Enter JOAN, a warm, eccentric and sporting writer, and LUIS. The exchange becomes a dance between strangers of assumptions and moral calculations. Directed and written by Savannah Knoop. Produced by Jed Root. Starring Alessandro Magania.

Enter JOAN, a warm, eccentric and sporting writer, and LUIS. The exchange becomes a dance between strangers of assumptions and moral calculations. Directed and written by Savannah Knoop. Produced by Jed Root. Starring Alessandro Magania.