• Release Date: Oct 5, 2007
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  • Summary: 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 Kurtz’s 911 call deemed Kurtz’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 wife’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. (L5 Productions) Expand
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  1. Electrifying and alarming film.
  2. Reviewed by: Mark Bell
    80
    An important heads-up to what is going on in our country right now in the name of national security, and a brilliant statement on artistic freedom and the dangers it faces. This film should be seen, should be discussed and is an important document on our times.
  3. 50
    The famously lovely mug of Tilda Swinton (cast as Kurtz's wife) merely distracts, and I couldn't help feeling that this potent story would have been far better served by a straight-ahead documentary.

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