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Kurt

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About Me



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My Interests

Acting, World Travel, The Jolly Rogers, Cooking, Reading, Movies, Photography

Music:

World Music, New Age, The Red Elvises, Dick Dale, The Doors, The Who, Movie Soundtracks, Classical, Vintage Jazz and Blues, Bluegrass, Folk

Movies:

IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER - 2001: A Space Odyssey, Being There, Local Hero, The Shawshank Redemption, The Truman Show, Amelie, Zero Effect, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws, Star Wars: A New Hope (original theatrical release), Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (original theatrical release), A Midnight Clear, Unbreakable, Field of Dreams, 12 Angry Men, Failsafe, Dr. Strangelove, Casablanca, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Rear Window, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Big Trouble in Little China, John Carpenter's The Thing, Escape from New York, The Fog, The Fifth Element, Boondock Saints, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Se7en, Evil Dead I, II & Army of Darkness, Angel Heart, Jacob's Ladder, Das Boot, The Incredibles, The Natural, Blade Runner, Mad Max, The Road Warrior...I'm also quite taken with zombie films.

Television:

The Food Network, The History Channel, Band of Brothers, Twin Peaks, Quantum Leap, The Prisoner, Danger UXB, Sci-Fi Channel's Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Heroes, Deadwood, Carnivale, Rome

Books:

J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" & "Lord of the Rings", Alexandres Dumas' "Count of Monte Cristo", Stephen King's "The Stand" & "Dark Tower" Series, Michael Crichton's "The Andromeda Strain", Simon Winchester's "Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded", Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's complete "Sherlock Holmes", Richard Adams' "Watership Down"

My Blog

RIGGED is back in Kansas City!

Greetings, all! RIGGED will be showing at the Kansas International Film Festival on September 25, 7:45pm at the Glenwood Arts theater in the Metcalf South shopping center at 95th and Metcalf...
Posted by Kurt on Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:28:00 PST

New RIGGED update!

A lot's been happening with RIGGED! - In May, RIGGED was featured at the Cannes Film Festival Marketplace; because of concern that the title "Rigged" may not translate well out of English, the interna...
Posted by Kurt on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:36:00 PST

Short films

Here are a few things I’ve been doing recently... . The Downfall from Amy McClung on Vimeo....
Posted by Kurt on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:26:00 PST

PRECIOUS LITTLE FLOWERS

In May of 2007 I shot a short film called PRECIOUS LITTLE FLOWERS - a story about a hitman, his girlfriend and the guy they're beating the crap out of.  This shoot distinguishes itself from other...
Posted by Kurt on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:31:00 PST

Film Noir

I've been working on a few projects for Timothy Harvey - they're shorts filmed in the film noir style; there will be a total of three of them and we finished shooting the second one last night.  ...
Posted by Kurt on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:01:00 PST

New headshots

A couple weeks ago I got the chance to get some new headshots taken by a friend of mine, Morgan Miller - I met her on the set of RIGGED (she was the still photographer), and is an all-around great per...
Posted by Kurt on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:36:00 PST

BANNON’S LOOKOUT pics...

Greetings, all! Just posted a few photos that I took on the last night of the PRISONER EXCHANGE AT BANNON'S LOOKOUT shoot.  It was at the end of the second day, so my apologies for not having any...
Posted by Kurt on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:40:00 PST

PRISONER EXCHANGE AT BANNONS LOOKOUT

Greetings, all! Just got finished doing another short for Patrick Rea; he directed me in SHED OUT OF LUCK (currently out on DVD as part of the HEARTLAND HORRORS collection.  Click here to pick it...
Posted by Kurt on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:23:00 PST

SHED OUT OF LUCK on DVD!

The horror/comedy short, SHED OUT OF LUCK (in which I play the lead), will be released on DVD in early October!  It will be part of a compilation of horror shorts called HEARTLAND HORRORS and is ...
Posted by Kurt on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:13:00 PST

RIGGED (and me) in L.A.!!!

I'm back!  What a great trip!  We screened RIGGED in the Darryl F. Zanuck Theater - which is within the walls of 20th Century Studios!  The theater sat directly next to the soundstage w...
Posted by Kurt on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:36:00 PST