Their grandparents (who ran a film distribution company, Carman Educational Associates) worked with and boarded German animation pioneer Lotte Reiniger, whom Culp met at age 3, their first exposure to filmmaking.
While employed as a post-production supervisor at Vision TV, Culp became involved with Symptom Hall, a free-form performance arts space that operated from 1993 to 1998.
Largely cast with local teens, it satirized Culp’s experiences in the social justice movement, within an unflattering portrait of fictionalized small town Grimsville, ON.
Alongside film and video work, Culp has contributed songwriting, vocals and guitar to rock bands The Suck Trumpets, Loogan Bin, The Biters and Broken Puppy.
From 2007 to 2018 Culp acted as co-programmer at Toronto’s underground screening venue Trash Palace, where they contributed prints from their large collection of 16mm Canadian and educational films.
Culp was film and video editor for Broken Pencil magazine from 1999 to 2001, and has authored several reviews and essays for Paul Corupe’s canuxploitation.com.
They have written reviews and features for many web sites and publications including The Cultural Gutter, Fuse, POV, Eclectic Screening Room, Clamor, Canadian Dimension, Filmprint and Now Magazine.