Carey Burtt
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Carey Burtt is a filmmaker and musician based in New York City, mainly working in the underground genre.
Films
[edit]Burtt's films The Psychotic Odyssey of Richard Chase and The Death of Sex appeared in the second edition of Jack Sargeant's book Deathtripping: The Cinema of Transgression.[citation needed] The Psychotic Odyssey of Richard Chase was also distributed by the production company Troma Entertainment in its "Best of Tromadance Vol. 1" DVD.[citation needed] It was included in Other Cinema's Experiments in Terror video exhibition.[1]
Burtt's 1999 short Mind Control Made Easy or How to Become a Cult Leader was featured in the 2005 Hell on Reels: Astoria Moving Image Festival. An instructional film outlining the techniques used by destructive cults, Mind Control was also featured on Supersphere.com where it received an audience award. Fragments from Mind Control have been used by Flying Lotus' alter ego Captain Murphy on the album Duality, released in 2012. Burtt's films have been shown in several festivals including New York and Chicago Underground and The FanTasia Film Festival. In January 2009 the Boston Underground Film Festival held a retrospective screening event of his work.
In 2004 Burtt completed his first feature, A Forked World which was co-written and co-directed by Tucson Weekly film critic James DiGiovanna.[2] It won "Most Effectively Offensive" at the Boston Underground Film Festival in 2005. Burtt and DiGiovanna also collaborated on a parody of political ads, which was featured on a segment on NBC in December 2007.[3]
In 2019 Burtt completed his second feature Corpus Chaosum which won best experimental film at the 2021 First Hermetic International Film Festival.[4]
Music
[edit]Carey's Problem formed in the summer of 1986 with Cindy Brolsma and Lisa Jenio. The bank released the album Arena of Shame in 1990, produced by Dave Sardy.[5] 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 and put out two CDs: "Will You Love Me?" and "More Songs For Clucky."
In 1992 Burtt composed and played guitar for five songs for the 1995 album Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud by Julian Schnabel.[6][7]
Filmography
[edit]- Till Death Do You Part (1974) - Reg 8mm - 4 mins
- Earthquake (1974) - Reg 8mm - 19 mins
- Bionic Brothers (1974) - Reg 8mm - 5 mins
- Hit Man (1976) - Super 8mm - 7 mins (color b&w)
- Killer Poptarts (1976) - Super 8mm - 2 mins
- It Thrived On Monkeys (then there were none) (1977) 06/18/77 - Super 8mm - 5 mins
- The Star Wars Aptitude Test (1977) - Regular 8mm - 5 mins
- Vampire's Apprentice (1977) - Super 8mm - 15 mins
- Hitch Hike (1979) - Super 8mm - 6 mins
- Extraordinary People (1980) - Super 8mm - 8 mins
- The World In One Take (1981) - Super 8mm - (B&W Color) - 8 mins
- Awakening Son (1982) - Super 8mm - 19 mins
- Devil War Movie (1982) - Super 8mm - 6mins (B&W)
- Framing Bitches (1988) - unfinished - Super 8mm short - 7 mins
- Hey Mister, You're in the Girls’ Room (1990) - 16mm - 5 mins
- City of Feelings (1990) - Finished on DV (16mm print AKA “Festival of Feelings”) - 20 mins
- The Death of Sex (1998) - 16mm - 5 mins
- The Psychotic Odyssey of Richard Chase (1998) - 16mm - 7 mins
- Mind Control Made Easy (or how to become a cult leader) (1999) - 16mm - 13 mins
- The Dissociative Disorder Movie (2000) - Remade in 2010 - DV - approx 20mins
- Sun of God (2003) - 5 mins 16mm DV
- A Forked World (2004) - DV Feature made with James DiGiovanna - 1hr 22min
- Through a Gash Deathly (2006) - 16mm finished on DV - 7 mins
- Spirits of Authority (2006) - DV - 5 mins
- Dream of a Ridiculous Man (2009) - 16mm / DV - finished on DV - 11 mins
- Dead Set (2009) - Super 8mm - Finished on DV - 5 mins
- How Not To Be Stupid (a guide to critical thinking) - 16mm/DV - finished on DV - 9 mins
- The Dissociative Disorder Movie (2010) - DV - 11 mins
- Blood & Fire (2011) - HDV / 16mm - finished on HDV - 10 mins
- Helping: with Travis (2012) - HDV - 12 mins
- Pigs & Vampires (2012) - HD Video - 10 mins
- Jesus Loves Me: now how do I get him to stop calling? (2012) - HD Video - 6 mins
- The Doors of Reflection (2017) - HD Video - 3 mins
- Corpus Chaosum (2019) - HD Video Feature - 1 hr 15 mins
- Embracism (2020) - HD Video - 5 mins
- Cosmetic Consciousness (2020) - HD Video Feature - 1hr 13 mins
- Malevolent Intelligence (2020) - HD Video Feature - 1hr 30 mins
- The Demonic Option (2020) - HD Video Feature - 58 mins
- Gaslighting: Fact or Fiction? (2021) - HD Video - 10 mins
- Heavenly Resentments (2021) - HD Video - 1hr 11 mins
- Sensible Malevolence (2021) - HD Video - 1hr 19 mins
- Art Film Retrospective (2021) - HD Video - 37 mins
- Some People Like Pitbulls (2024) - HD Video - 94 mins
- There's a Demon Inside You (2024) - HD Video - 5 mins
References
[edit]- ^ Experiments in Terror: The Horror Film and Its Spawn
- ^ Burtt, Carey; DiGiovanna, James (2004-12-03), A Forked World (Comedy), Bruce Bennett, Albert Cadabra, Michael Den Dekker, Forked World Produtions, retrieved 2023-11-28
- ^ "'Tucker' for Dec. 14". NBC News. 2007-12-17. Retrieved 2023-11-28.[failed verification]
- ^ Hermetic International Film Festival
- ^ SoundClick artist: Carey's Problem - UnPopArt, Shock Rock, Mental Illness Rock, Industrial Pop
- ^ Liner notes, "Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud" Island 1995
- ^ Julian Schnabel - Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic, retrieved 2023-11-28