A terrifying and important documentary by Lynn Hershman Leeson who made the film to bring attention to her friend's, Steve Kurtz's nightmare. The surreal nightmare of artist and professor Kurtz began when his wife died of heart failure in her sleep. The police and FBI deemed Kurtz's art suspect and him as a bio terrorist as he was preparing an art show about genetically modified foods. Despite the harmless stuff they found at his place, he and his collaborator are charged with a technicality such as mail fraud which raises serious questions about the government's intention to take away our civil liberties and shut down artists and activists. Part of the film is dramatized with actors like Tilda Swinton and Peter Coyote. For more info, please visit http://www.strangeculture.net/ YRCinema's coverage of AFI Fest 2007.
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Strange Culture
A terrifying and important documentary by Lynn Hershman Leeson who made the film to bring attention to her friend's, Steve Kurtz's nightmare. The surreal nightmare of artist and professor Kurtz began when his wife died of heart failure in her sleep. The police and FBI deemed Kurtz's art suspect and him as a bio terrorist as he was preparing an art show about genetically modified foods. Despite the harmless stuff they found at his place, he and his collaborator are charged with a technicality such as mail fraud which raises serious questions about the government's intention to take away our civil liberties and shut down artists and activists. Part of the film is dramatized with actors like Tilda Swinton and Peter Coyote. For more info, please visit http://www.strangeculture.net/ YRCinema's coverage of AFI Fest 2007.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment