Carey Burtt

Carey Burtt is an award-winning filmmaker and musician based in New York City, mainly working in the underground genre.

FILMS

Known for their offbeat humor and dark narratives, the films of Carey Burtt include "The Psychotic Odyssey of Richard Chase" and "The Death of Sex", both featured in the second edition of Jack Sargeant's book "Deathtripping: The Cinema of Transgression". "Psychotic Odyssey" is distributed by the cult production company Troma Entertainment in its "Best of Tromadance Vol. 1" DVD. It was also featured in Other Cinema's Experiments in Terror video exhibition. [ [http://www.othercinema.com/euro/exphorror/hprogram.html Experiments in Terror: The Horror Film and Its Spawn ] ]
"Mind Control Made Easy or How to Become a Cult Leader" was featured in the 2005 Hell on Reels: Astoria Moving Image Festival and enjoyed audience praise. An instructional film outlining the techniques used by destructive cults, "Mind Control" was also featured on Supersphere.com where it received an audience award. His films have been shown in several festivals including New York and Chicago Underground and The FantASIA Film Festival.

In 2004 he completed his first feature, A Forked World which was co-written and co-directed by Tucson Weekly film critic James DiGiovanna [ [http://www.imdb.com The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) ] ] . It won "Most Effectively Offensive" at the Boston Underground Film Festival in 2005 [ [http://www.bostonunderground.org Boston Underground Film Festival // Home ] ] . Burtt and DiGiovanna also collaborated on a parody of political ads, which was featured on a segment on MSNBC in December 2007. [ [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22297085/ 'Tucker' for Dec. 14 - Tucker - MSNBC.com ] ]

MUSIC

Carey's Problem formed in the summer of 1986 with Cindy Brolsma and Lisa Jenio, The Problem never quite reached its full potential but released the album "Arena of Shame" in 1990 and was produced by Dave Sardy. The song "Led Zeppelin" had college radio play and was featured in the Steve Zahn film "Freak Talks About Sex" which played on Cinemax.

Gigi Disco Rock was formed in 1998 with friends and put out two cds: "Will You Love Me?" and "More Songs For Clucky." [ [http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=314259 SoundClick artist: Carey's Problem - UnPopArt, Shock Rock, Mental Illness Rock, Industrial Pop ] ]

In 1992 Burtt worked with film director/painter Julian Schnabel on his cd Every Silver Lining has a Cloud released by Island Records and produced by Bill Laswell (released 1995). [Liner notes, "Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud" Island 19995]

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0123786/ IMDB Page]

* [http://www.youtube.com/kinghotpants Youtube Channel]

References

¹http://www.othercinema.com/euro/exphorror/hprogram.html
²http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460453/
³http://www.bostonunderground.org
⁴http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22297085/
⁵http://gigidiscorock.com/
⁶http://www.amazon.com/Every-Silver-Lining-Has-Cloud/dp/B000001E85