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.
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This short documentary was produced by Richard Concepcion as an MFA in Film project in the Masters Portfolio Seminar of Professor Randall Blair at American University.
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