Carey Burtt

Carey Burtt is a filmmaker and musician based in New York City, mainly working in the underground genre.

Films

Known for their disturbing 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.[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 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. 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 celebrated his work with a retrospective screening event.

In 2004 he 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.[3] Burtt and DiGiovanna also collaborated on a parody of political ads, which was featured on a segment on MSNBC in December 2007.[4]

In 2019 Burtt completed his second feature Corpus Chaosum which won best experimental film at the 2021 First Hermetic International Film Festival.[5]

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."[6]

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).[7]

Filmography
  • Till Death Do You Part (1974) - Reg 8mm - 4 mins
  • Zombie film (1974) - Reg 8mm - 3 mins
  • Earthquake (1974) - Reg 8mm - 19 mins
  • Bionic Brothers (1974) - Reg 8mm - 5 mins
  • Jaws (remake) (1975) - unfinished - footage lost - Super 8mm - short
  • Killer Pop Tarts (1976) - Super 8mm (March 14, 1976) - 2 mins
  • Hit Man (1976) - Super 8mm - 7 mins (color b&w)
  • Future Movie (1976) - Regular 8mm - 4 mins (unfinished)
  • It Thrived On Monkeys (then there were none) (1977) 06/18/77 - Super 8mm - 5 mins
  • Star Wars (remake) (1977) - unfinished - footage lost - Regular 8mm - short
  • The Star Wars Aptitude Test (1977) - Regular 8mm - 5 mins
  • Vampire's Apprentice (1977) - Super 8mm - 15 mins
  • Rock Band Animation (1977) - Super 8mm - 2 mins
  • A Clownwork Orange (1978) - Super 8mm - 3 mins (finished on video)
  • The Race (1978) - Super 8mm - 2 mins
  • Doorway to Fear (1978) - Super 8mm - 4 mins
  • Odysseus and the Cyclops (1978) - Super 8mm - 3 mins
  • Hitch Hike (1979) - Super 8mm - 6 mins
  • Avant Guard (1979) - Super 8mm - 3 mins
  • The Santa Claus Hitler Film (1979) - Super 8mm - short (Lost)
  • Eulogy (1980) - Super 8mm - 4 mins
  • Extraordinary People (1980) - Super 8mm - 8 mins
  • Afternoon of an Earwig (1980) - Super 8mm - 4 mins
  • Egg Movie (1980) Super 8mm - 4 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)
  • Guitar Love (1983) - 16mm (Lost Film surviving digital copy) - 4 mins
  • The John Wayne Gacy Film (1983) - 16mm (Lost) short
  • Body and Soul (1983) - 16mm - (Lost) short
  • I Talk to the Trees (1983) -16mm - (Lost) short
  • Framing Bitches (1988) - unfinished - Super 8mm short - 7 mins
  • The DH Lawrence Film (1989) co dir: James DiGiovanna - S 8mm - fin on HD vid - 4 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
  • Drunk Mother Movie (2006) - DV - 3 mins
  • Lib Beed Away (2006) - DV - 2 mins
  • Kant Movies (2007) - DV - with James DiGiovanna - 3 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
  • Doors of Reflection (2017) - HD Video - 3 mins
  • God's Good Work (2017) - HD Video - 4 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

References
  1. Experiments in Terror: The Horror Film and Its Spawn
  2. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
  3. Boston Underground Film Festival // Home
  4. 'Tucker' for Dec. 14 - Tucker - nbcnews.com
  5. Hermetic International Film Festival
  6. SoundClick artist: Carey's Problem - UnPopArt, Shock Rock, Mental Illness Rock, Industrial Pop
  7. Liner notes, "Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud" Island 1995
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