TV Guide: Online Video Guide Strange Culture

Strange Culture: 6/25/2008

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:20:41 -0400

Strange Culture movie trailer - Directed by Lynn Hershman-Leeson. Genre: Documentary Rating: Not Rated

Strange Culture: 6/25/2008

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 03:50:32 -0400

Strange Culture movie trailer - Directed by Lynn Hershman-Leeson. Genre: Documentary Rating: Not Rated

Strange Culture

Thu, 31 May 2012 04:48:02 -0400

In this moving and wildly innovative film, director Lynn Hershman Leeson tells the terrifying true story of how one man's personal tragedy turns into persecution by a paranoid and overzealous government.

Strange Culture

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:16:26 -0400

Alternately teasing and terrifying, Strange Culture molds one man's tragedy into an engrossing narrative. In 2004, Steve Kurtz (Thomas Jay Ryan), an associate professor of Art at the State University of New York, Buffalo, was preparing an exhibition on genetically modified food for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art when his wife, Hope (Tilda Swinton), died in her sleep of heart failure. But when paramedics noticed petri dishes and other scientific paraphernalia in the home, they alerted the F.B.I.; within hours Mr. Kurtz found himself suspected of bioterrorism, his home quarantined and his wife's body removed for autopsy. Filmmaker Lynn Hershman-Leeson bends the nonfiction form to her own unconventional will. The result is a fascinating collage of re-enactments, news clips and interviews, illuminating not only the implications of corporate meddling in the food chain but the ease with which innocent civilian behavior can become a suspicious act.