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Movie Title : Strange Culture
Release Date : Oct 5, 2007 Wide
Genre Movie :Documentary,Drama,Special Interest
Mpaa Rating : Unrated

Actors :Peter Coyote,Tilda Swinton,Thomas Jay Ryan,Josh Kornbluth,Steve Kurtz,Shoresh Alaudini,Cassie Powell,Larissa Clayton

Filmmaker Lynn Hershman-Leeson examines a strange miscarriage of justice amplified by post-9/11 hysteria in this imaginative fusion of documentary and docudrama. Steve Kurtz is an artist and political activist who was an associate professor at the State University of New York's Buffalo campus and a member of a politically oriented creative collective known as the Critical Art Ensemble. In the spring of 2004, Kurtz was preparing an installation of pieces commenting on the potential dangers of genetically modified foods for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art when his wife, Hope Kurtz, unexpectedly suffered heart failure. Kurtz called 911 to report the emergency, but by the time the police arrived she was dead. While looking through Kurtz's home, authorities found petri dishes used to grow bacteria and genetically modified flies the artist had obtained for his exhibit; soon, a Hazmat crew had sealed off the house, and Kurtz was behind bars under laws designed to combat bioterrorism. While Kurtz purchased his materials legally through the Internet and the case against him is flimsy at best, the FBI has refused to drop charges against him, in part because the federal government is eager to strengthen bioterrorism laws rather than call attention to their flaws, and in part because the Food and Drug Administration would prefer to keep critics of bioengineered food (which the FDA has embraced over the objection of many in the scientific community) as quiet as possible. Since Kurtz is not able to tell his own story on camera, for the film Strange Culture Hershman-Leeson has combined interviews and newsreel footage with cinéma vérité-style re-creations, featuring actors Thomas Jay Ryan as Steve Kurtz, Tilda Swinton as Hope Kurtz, and Peter Coyote as Steve's associate Robert Ferrell. Strange Culture also features an original score by pioneering experimental rock group the Residents. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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As sad as it is to realize that youth activism in this country is dead, it's sadder still to find yourself agreeing that they have a point.
Carina Chocano-Los Angeles Times

Somewhere between documentary and dramatization, fact and impression, Strange Culture molds one manâ(TM)s tragedy into an engrossing narrative experiment.
Jeannette Catsoulis-New York Times

A terrible personal tragedy and a penetrating case study in the intolerance and paranoia that still surrounds avant-garde art in America.
Andrew O'Hehir-Salon.com

Slipping in and out of character, variously embodying, studying, and commenting on their counterparts, the actors manage both dramatic reenactment and its deconstruction with aplomb.
Nathan Lee-Village Voice

Echoing the 2006 Oscar-winning German film The Lives of Others, Leeson's film is a scary testament to the power of fear.
John Hartl-Seattle Times

The real-life events chronicled in Strange Culture support the argument that the federal government is more inclined to create fear than contain it.
J. R. Jones-Chicago Reader

A real-life nightmare scene out of Kafka.
Dennis Schwartz-Ozus' World Movie Reviews

...[this film is] a slightly surreal reflection of what must have been the post-2004 experience of being Steve Kurtz.
Sarah Boslaugh-Playback:stl

Outrage overkill that gives as much weight to the government trashing Steve's house and locking his cat in the attic as it does their desecration of the First Amendment.
Amy Nicholson-I.E. Weekly

Hershman-Leeson makes no attempt to obtain viewpoints from anyone other thanthe victims' perspectives, but on the other hand, the facts speak rather loudlyfor themselves.
Laura Clifford-Reeling Reviews

Crossing conventional boundaries of dramatization and documentary, Hershman Leeson's movie makes Kurtz's case available to "broader audience."
Cynthia Fuchs-PopMatters

As disjointed and affected as Hershman-Leeson's other work, the film nevertheless efficiently illustrates how internal paranoia is employed to silence art and dissent.
Fernando F. Croce-Slant Magazine

A timely wakeup call - Kurtz's own '5/11' as he terms his personal nightmare - to remind us just how dangerous and threatening the terrorism of the US government is right now, towards its own people.
Prairie Miller-WBAI Web Radio

[The] experimental touches, such as dramatic re-creations with Thomas Ryan Adams and Tilda Swinton playing Steve and Hope, distract from the issues at hand.
Sean Means-Salt Lake Tribune

A chilling example of how an average person's liberties can be curtailed in the era of the Patriot Act.
Bill White-Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Hershman-Leeson's film amply lives up to the task of exposing and criticizing this governmental wrong that typifies the current context of paranoia while also highlighting the massive divide that continues to grow between art and government.
Sara Maria Vizcarrondo-Boxoffice Magazine

Hershman Leeson crosses fiction and non-fiction for her astonishing, exasperating third feature.
Jeffrey M. Anderson-Combustible Celluloid

Advances investigative reporting using a filmmaker's POV to the material.
Victoria Alexander-FilmsInReview.com

A brilliant statement on artistic freedom and the dangers it faces. This film should be seen, should be discussed and is an important document on our times.
Mark Bell-Film Threat

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Strange Culture is a 2007 documentary film directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson. It stars Tilda Swinton and Thomas Jay Ryan. It premiered January 19, 2007 at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. The film examines the case of artist and professor Steve Kurtz, a member of the Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). The work of Kurtz and other CAE members dealt with genetically modified food and other issues of science and public policy. After his wife, Hope, died of heart failure, paramedics arrived and became suspicious when they noticed petri dishes and other scientific equipment related to Kurtz's art in his home. They summoned the FBI, who detained Kurtz within hours on suspicion of bioterrorism.


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