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SYNOPSIS: SEX, LIES & ASPERGER
University of Pennsylvania Clinical psychologist, Dr. Mary Riggs Cohen, and her former patient, Jacob Heinz, share their thoughts about what it means to live with the silent disability called ASPERGER SYNDROME (ALSO CALLED HIGH FUNCTIONING AUTISM), a neurological disorder of the brain. Jacob Heinz was jailed in 2006 in a Bensalem, Pennsylvania Police Department sting operation via myspace.com where officers posed as a 13 year old girl and had sexual conversations. Given the skyrocketing autism epidemic bedeviling the United States, are adult men and women with asperger syndrome more likely to commit sexual crimes than others? If so, why? This short film practices Dziga Vertov’s concept of reflexivity via physically exposing the presence of the audio apparatus, as well as non-traditional editing in order to create a dialectic of Brechtian alienation vis a vis empathy for the protagonist. From the filmmaker: Official website SEX, LIES & ASPERGER is not available for purchase online yet. If you sign-up to host a screening, the filmmaker will be notified that you need a DVD...or you can contact the filmmaker directly from their profile page. Tags: ASPERGER No screenings of SEX, LIES & ASPERGER are currently scheduled. Host one yourself!
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