Strange culture produced by Lise Swenson, Steven C. Beer, Lynn Hershman Leeson ; director, writer, editor, Lynn Hershman Leeson. - United States : Frontrow Filmed, 2008. - 1 x DVD ; 75 mins.

Special features: Theatrical trailer; filmmaker interviews; outtakes; filmmaker biography. Credits: Cinematographer, Hiro Narita ; original score by The Residents ; director of photography, Hiro Narita. Cast: Tilda Swinton, Thomas Jay Ryan, Peter Coyote, Josh Kornbluth, Steve Kurtz.

Steve Kurtz's nightmare began on May 11, 2004, when he awoke to find his wife dead of heart failure. Police responding to his distressed 911 call became suspicious of biological equipment in his house and contacted the FBI. Only hours after his wife's tragic death, he found himself detained as a suspected "bioterrorist," as dozens of federal agents in Hazmat suites scoured his home, seizing his art materials, computers, manuscripts, books, his cat, and even his wife's body. This film is a docudrama, i.e., a combination of interviews, documentary footage, and reconstructed scenes using actors about those events.


Artists--Drama.
Telephone--Emergency reporting systems--Drama.
Suspicion--United States--Drama.
Bioterrorism--Drama.
Searches and seizures--Drama.
Searches and seizures.

791.45 ST RA