Alien Dreamtime
by Ken Adams
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Actor: Britt Welin, Ken Adams, Lady Miss Kier of Deee*Lite, Terence McKennaDirector: Ken Adams
Writer: Terence McKenna
Producer: Ken Adams
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Animated, Color, Digital Sound, Director's Cut, Full Screen, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Special Edition
Running Time: 60 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-21
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Magic Carpet Media
Product features:
- DVD-R Format
DVD Reviews of Alien Dreamtime
DVD Review: Rant Vs Rave
Summary: 4 Stars
I first owned this piece on VHS at the time it was first released, back when I first started to rave, when McKenna was alive, when everything seemed possible. It strikes me now that there should be a cousin event to Rave, called Rant, where psychotic countercultural spokespersons (like ol' Terrence was) are invited before a participatory audience to weave lunatic theories and high-sci lullabies over a wash of circadian EDM for 18 hours at a go. But who would front such an animal, now Uncle Terry's kicked the bucket?
Jonah "Spacetime" Sharp is on his A-game, as expected. On the visual front, Rose-X represents in their lamentable style of mixing beautiful, superbly effected film segments with nauseating CG, by virtue of insipid and over-used video-toaster wipes. On the whole, the visual aspect works, but it may grate on the nerves of the discriminating observer. McKenna's voice can be likewise grating, for anyone not familiar with his beloved nasal babble. And Terrence is in fine form for babble. Any fan of his should have this in their collection. This DVD captures a timeless moment of crystalized madness and optimism, like a strange attractor throwing sparks of inspiration back through time to illuminate the minds of those with eyes to see. Psychonauts apply here.
DVD Review: Not to Cool
Summary: 3 Stars
I thought this was going to be better. The visual effects were not very good. Maybe real out of date by now. Mckenna on his first to rants didn't really make me interested in seeing the complete DVD. I watch the rest of it someday when I'm real bored. I'd pass on this one if I were you.DVD Review: Dissapointed
Summary: 1 Stars
I have listened to the CD of Alien Dreamtime hundreds of times (literally) and this companion video has ruined that cumulative experience. I highly recomend avoiding this DVD if you have heard the CD before as it will taint that experience.
The graphics in the video are very dated and I am sure someone could make a better visual show on their MAC (If you do let me know where to find it!) The sound quality of this Live recording is also not as clean as the CD.
CD = Highly Highly Highly Recomended
DVD = Only after you have listen to the CD and appreciate its content.
I think I purchased this just to add to my McKenna collection.
Sorry for the bad review...
DVD Review: Interesting
Summary: 4 Stars
If at all interested in Terence McKenna, you should probably check this DVD out. The visuals aren't very complex, but the speech is a classic (on the Archaic Revival). There is one sequence which features crude, psychedelic images of phallics, which makes me feel uncomfortable on viewing. I don't understand why it's there. Anyways, when you get past the phallic scene, it's a classic psychedelic tale set to some decent visuals.DVD Review: All it did was make me dizzy
Summary: 1 Stars
First off, let me begin by saying that I think Terence McKenna is one of the most important people to come around in the last hundred years or so. If you think this would be a good introduction to what he was all about don't start here. I don't recommend that anyone watch this. What it amounts to is just a bunch of swirling psychedelic images kaleidescoping about while TM riffs over the top with some standard raps of his. I was wanting it to be over by about 7 minutes into it, by then I had discovered it probably wasn't going to get any better. There is not nearly enough Terence here. There are huge streaches where he's not even speaking at all, the images are lame and annoying. You do get to see a semi-nude woman dancing for a while yet no beaver shots....This is a sad substitute for real experience. If you don't have the balls to take 5 grams in silent darkness, alone -like he often recommended - then maybe this movie will make you think that you just had a trip, but don't kid yourself....the contents of your own mind will be far more interesting and insightful than anything you are likely to find here. For a good source of TM audio material, check out the audio archives of rinf.com. You will get the inside scoop from The Man himself with nothing else in the way.
Description of Alien Dreamtime
featuring:Words - Terence McKenna
Visuals - Rose X
Music - Spacetime Continuum
Didgeridu - Stephen Kent
Alien Dreamtime was produced as a live transmedia performance in San Francisco, on the evenings of February 26 and 27, 1993.
The performance is divided into three movements, each reflective of Terence McKenna's ethnobotanical theories: Archaic Revival, Alien Love(DMT Elves) and Time Wave Zero(2012).
McKenna's presence is combined with the neo-psychedelic visuals of Rose X and ambient techno improvisations by Space Time Continuum and didgeridusita, Stephen Kent.
about Alien Dreamtime:
"Captured live in San Francisco this event dissolves distinctions between performance art, rave, shamanic ritual, and inspired oratory. Terence McKenna pulls out his multimedia mojo bag and becomes raver, storyteller and psychedelic tourguide bringing all on a howling, transdimensional ride into some inexplicably weird territory. Backed by Stephen Kent's whirling didgeridoo, live video scratching by Rose X, and ambient loops by Spacetime Continuum, we are shuttled back 15,000 summers ago to the mushroom induced ecstasy on the African savannah, propelled into alien landscape of the DMT flash inhabited by hyperdimensional, self-transforming, machine elves, and left to ponder the mysteries of the psychedelic experience, the future of the human species, and its forward escape out of history. All in all, a wonderous, intensely trippy and enlightening adventure." - Amazon reviewer
(Alien Dreamtime)... would turn even Timothy Leary straight. - Billboard Magazine
Alien Dreamtime comes closer to replicating a psychedelic experience than anything else we've ever seen. - Brain Mind Bulletin
This video is a phenethylamine-drenched, techno-primitive extravaganza, par excellence. - Howard Rheingold in Whole Earth Review
Event of the year. - Urb Magazine
Average. Amazon Customer Review: 5 Stars
"My friend gave me a warning before popping this tape in, that it might be a bit intoxicating. That was one of the biggest understatements I have ever heard."
"I highly recommend this video for anyone who needs a little vacation from reality & some
healthy affirmation of the spirit of mankind."
This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
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