Strange Culture

Strange Culture (2007)

Documentary

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.

Director: Lynn Hershman-Leeson

Casts

	Tilda Swinton as Hope Kurtz
	Thomas Jay Ryan as Steve Kurtz
	Josh Kornbluth as Self
	Peter Coyote as Self
	Steve Kurtz as Self
	Shoresh Alaudini as Loren
	Cassie Powell as Lise
	Jakob Bokulich as FBI Agent
	Gregg Bordowitz as Self - Artist / CAE Defense Fund
	Larissa Clayton as Char
	Beatriz da Costa as Self
	Susan Leeson as Self (as Dr. Susan Leeson)
	Jennifer Noland as Art Student
	Keith Olbermann as Self
	Marcie Prohofsky as FBI Agent
	Wallace Shawn as Self
	Lucia Sommer as Self
	Sigrid Sutter as Reporter
	Nato Thompson as Self
	Paul Vanouse as Self
	Richard Wenzel as FBI Agent
	Jeff Bredt as Federal Prosecutor (uncredited)

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