Strange Culture DVD

Lynn Hershman Leeson's moving and innovative film Strange Culture tells the terrifying story of how one man's personal tragedy was turned into persecution by a government made paranoid of a terrorist threat. Art professor Steve Kurtz's nightmare began on May 11 2004 when he awoke to find his wife Hope dead of a heart attack. Paramedics responding to his 911 call discovered what they believed to be a suspicious collection of petri dishes and scientific paraphenalia in his house and contacted the FBI. For Kurtz whose reason for the scientific experiments was that he... was preparing for an art project on modified food his world was turned upside down. Only hours after his wife's tragic death he was suddenly accused of being a bioterrorist and became a pariah to all but his closest friends. Told through a unique blend of interviews documentary footage and reconstructed scenes starring Tilda Swinton Thomas Jay Ryan and Peter Coyote Hershman's critically-acclaimed film is a sophisticated look at how the traumatic events of 9/11 altered American society and undermined its long-held values. [show more]

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