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Bio-Art Is Not A Crime, Movie Director Tells io9

Art professor Steve Kurtz's wife, Hope, died in her sleep in May 2004. When Kurtz called 911, however, the police saw petri dishes and a mobile DNA-extraction machine and called in the feds. Kurtz tried to explain that the high-school-level lab equipment was part of an art project he and Hope had been doing about genetically modified foods, but the FBI decided he was a bioterrorist. This case still continues nearly four years later, and a new direct-to-DVD movie, Strange Culture, uses Tilda Swinton, Thomas Jay Ryan and other actors to unravel one of the scariest cases of science fiction dictating legal actions in recent history. We talked to the director, Lynn Hershman Leeson. More »

6:30 AM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
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Latest by Charlie Jane Anders: @Macloserboy (Who Is Finally On Facebook For You Bitches): @misskarina: Fixed, thanks fo r the heads up! I was obviously having a bad brain evening when I wrote this... more »

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Super-Rabies Turns LA Building Into Death Trap In Quarantined

Plagues are the new monsters. Just look at Quarantined, the movie Screen Gems just green-lighted about a reporter and her camera crew, trapped inside a building where a deadly new strain of rabies rages. It sounds very 28 Days Later, but also like a zoom-lens on the future of our overpopulated and psychotic global village. More »

8:00 AM on Mon Nov 12 2007
By charliejane
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