"Terminator" - A short film about JT LeRoy

The film was shot during JT's (Savannah Knoop) visit to Stockholm in 2002. (Some parts shot in the US). The intension was to make more of a traditional documentary. But due to changes in JT's schedule etc, we didn't really get the footage we had expected and planned for. The whole thing turned out more like an attempt of capturing the feeling of reading the novel "Sarah". Pretty abstract.

Directed by: David Kaijser.
Music by: Heaviness. http://www.myspace.com/heaviness

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• jt
• leroy
• sarah
• terminator
• david
• kaijser
• thomas
• hemstad
• ola
• hansson
• joakim
• gemicke
• helga
• wretman
• heaviness
• savannah
• knoop
• laura
• albert

[MoreBadBehaviour]

fiction is fiction. get over it.... the writing is amazing.

[viterole]

i love this... but i dont get how people didnt realise that was a girl

[RevoSociety]

i just dicovered this persona and have read the books but I really cant tell if its a boy or girl!

help??

[marburg9]

If the "writing" had any value whatsoever, this nauseating hoax to generate false sympathy for a liar and a fraud would never have been necessary. She ought to share a cell with Greg Mortenson--another hack writer with zero talent or morals but a very lucrative a get-rich-quick scheme.

[RayasNegroOvejas]

It seems like it's typical american to care about if it's real or not; if it's good art - who cares?

[amendris]

I just finished her autobiography that she wrote about playing JT. and honestly, as much as I felt bitter toward the whole hoax, I really fell in love with her. Savannah is as beautiful a person as the character that she played. And laura is a brilliant writer. They both should be getting a lot more credit; just because it was fiction does not make the writing any less brilliant.

[Gnauma]

It's interesting Laura Albert hired a woman to play JT LeRoy (I know Savannah is related to her) but it would have been much more convincing to have a man in his early twenties take on the role. As JT it seems like she's too "aware" of her acting, it comes off more as phoniness instead of nervousness. However I still think the book deserves merit in its own right.

[ShallowtheShameless]

ahaha, I get believe people actually bought it. Her interpretation is so over the top, looking at the face of that guy is pretty funny now that everybody knows the story.

[TruthIsDisturbing]

Lies...Lies...Lies..

[matanteiloki]

Amazing, I love Savannah's JT, he looks so darn cute

[BEARWHALE]

jt is gay