Strange Culture: 2006, (Grade B)

Director: Lynn Herschman Leeson

Cast: Tilda Swinton; Thomas Jay Ryan; Peter Coyote; Josh Kornbluth; Beatriz da Costa; Steve Kurtz; Shoresh Alaudini, Cassie Powell; Larissa Clayton

Plot: a true story--done as docu-drama--but with the end not revealed-- about artist/professor Steve Kurtz, who, on the eve of an exhibit finds his wife dead from a heart attack. He calls for help and medics, suspicions of his art media, which included genetically modified foods, calls in the FBI . Kurtz is accused of bio-terrorism and his life is turned into a horrifying circus for the next few years.

sez says: not the best done documentary I've ever seen--but well enough done to get the story out--and what a bizarre and horrifying story it is!  It suggests our government is WAY out of touch with the intellegencia in the US --and if you want to buy into conspiracy theories--it suggests the government is seeking to censor, to dominate, the frighten, to control our society.

mjc says: I had no idea about this incident It was a sober reminder of the consequences of the Bush Years that still reverberate