Strange Culture torrent

STRANGE CULTURE

A new film by Lynn Hershman Leeson

The surreal nightmare of internationally-acclaimed artist and professor Steve Kurtz began when his wife Hope died in her sleep of heart failure. Police who responded to Kurtzâ??s 911 call deemed Kurtzâ??s art suspicious and called the FBI. Within hours the artist was detained as a suspected \"bioterrorist\" as dozens of federal agents in Hazmat suits sifted through his work and impounded his computers, manuscripts, books, his cat, and even his wifeâ??s body. Today Kurtz and his long-time collaborator Dr. Robert Ferrell, Professor of Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, await a trial date.