Disinformation: The Complete Series

Disinformation: The Complete Series
by Richard Metzger, Craig Melville

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Actor: Brother Theodore, Richard Metzger
Director: Craig Melville, Richard Metzger
Producer: Richard Metzger
Writer: Richard Metzger
Cinematographer: Nimrod Erez
Editor: Nimrod Erez
Producer: Craig Melville
Editor: Joe Comperiati
Producer: Bradley Novicoff
Writer: Bradley Novicoff
Producer: Brian Butler
Producer: Gary Baddeley
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), Unknown
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 480 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-01-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: The Disinformation Company

DVD Reviews of Disinformation: The Complete Series

DVD Review: Brilliant
Summary: 5 Stars

Disinformation is work of art.

Ignore the comments from those who dismiss the show and categorize it into simple reductionist ways. This show is smarter and more complicated than that. It creates its own language.

Disinfo combines the serious with the ludicrous and plays believe it or not with an audience who probably is not in on the joke; which is too bad, as the joke will leave you reeling to the effect of "Oh God I can't believe I'm watching something like this. How in the world did it get through the censors?"

Rednecks setting fire to their uncle. Suburban Satanists frustrated that their leader married a Christian. "Outsider" musicians allowed to perform their so-awful-its-great music in its entirety. Alchemical conversations with Grant Morrison, Paul Laffoley, Howard Bloom.

The editing mixes grunge electronic sounds and holds on odd moments longer than you would expect. The effect heightens your attention and leaves you wanting to see more.

It is a seriously treated collection of metaphysical pioneers and dedicated losers. To recycle a quote from David Byrne to a new context: It's like 60 Minutes on Acid.

This show is a national treasure.

DVD Review: Genuine transgressive TV--or not?
Summary: 2 Stars

I really wanted to like this series, I really did, but found a lot of it about as revolutionary or paradigm-shattering as a Berkeley potluck.

There's a few good bits--Robert Anton Wilson, Kenneth Anger, Orridge--but CIA-programmed sex slaves, spotty teenage satanists, LA fetish balls...sigh. The kids in LA must really be bored, is all I can say.

I'm not underestimating the effort it takes to create a TV series, but the potential for this series was huge. All they had to do was re-create their books, which are pretty good.

I've seen more revolutionary stuff on SBS in Australia!

DVD Review: Morrison, Rushkoff, and Wilson
Summary: 5 Stars

The show itself is a decidely uneven offering. The real treat here is the footage taken from the DisInfo convention. Rushkoff, Robert Anton Wilson, and especially Grant Morrison make great, thought provoking speeches. I've watched Morrison's several times over the last few years and I always get something new out of it. These speeches are the chief reason to get this dvd.

DVD Review: ONE MIXED BAG OF TRICKS
Summary: 4 Stars

Alright ignore all the other bad reviews on this page, i'm gonna give you the straight dope. I definitely have mixed feelings about this DVD.
DISC 1: On the one hand you have amazing profiles of great artists like Paul Laffoley, Genesis P-Orridge and Joe Coleman. On the other hand you've got ridiculous propaganda like the one-dimensional piece on pornography and the completely unsubstantiated story of Bryce Taylor's Satanic ritual abuse and CIA sex-slaves(when will the space cadets in California give this urban myth up?). Another ridiculous piece is the Montauk Project story, which if you are familiar with the conspiracy/UFO literature is one of those red herring, whack-job ideas that only serves to obscure and complicate the search for the truth. Also the host Richard Metzger REALLY bugs the crap out of me, being all smug, smarmy and fey. He really needs to stop taking himself so seriously. Now overall the main problem with this series is the lack of counterpoints in the pieces, in that they are just presented from a one-sided view with little or no context.
DISC 2: Now here's where things get really enlightening. Only 2 names you need to know: Grant Morrison and Robert Anton Wilson. These guys will blow your mind if you've had revelations while on psychedelic drugs, but couldn't quite put the puzzle together. Robert Anton Wilson is a true hero and a great philosopher, and I would recommend you pick up any and all of his books. My only real beef with this disc is Kenneth Anger, who is the embodiment of everything bad about hollywood. Mr. Anger admits on here that he is a member of the OTO, which is a secret society founded by Aleister Crowley. This is sleazeball city, and if you don't think there exists a sinister occult dimension to the Hollywood culture, think again.
Overall though, I am glad I picked this DVD up.

DVD Review: NOT What I expected
Summary: 1 Stars

If you are familiar with the DisInfo series of books then you may misjudge what this DVD is about. It is basically a series of 1/2 hour shows that only played in Britain, then was canceled even there. The cancellation had nothing to do with banning provocative content. There is no provocative content. Instead we are treated to a freakshow-like parade of unfortunates from off the street and elsewhere. This DVD is horrible.

Description of Disinformation: The Complete Series

How far do you have to go to go too far for television? Disinformation found out when it aired its own TV series, hosted by Disinfo co-founder Richard Metzger, on the UK's Channel 4 TV network, challenging the network's censors and resulting in Channel 4 refusing to air certain segments. The first season was bizarrely scheduled after Ally McBeal and surely messed with the heads of more than a few fans of that show-evidently the network didn't quite realize what they had paid for. An instant classic of the weird and unusual, the series was a hit (and was bought, but never aired, by the Sci-Fi Channel in the United States).

This deluxe DVD release follows hot on the heels of the publication of companion book Disinformation: The Interviews. Literary celebs interviewed include Illuminatus! author Robert Anton Wilson, popular media commentator Douglas Rushkoff (Media Virus), Lucifer Principle author Howard Bloom, X-Men scribe and comics-genius Grant Morrison, and underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger-people you rarely see on TV. Shock rocker Marilyn Manson is also featured.

Disinformation: The Complete Series boasts the following features:

. Two discs containing more than six hours of viewing.

. Contains bonus footage-never seen before-from the legendary Disinfo.Con 2000 conference held in New York-a huge counterculture event in New York City's Hammerstein Ballroom that was described by the New York Times as "Cyberpalooza"-including exclusive footage of Robert Anton Wilson, Marilyn Manson, Joe Coleman, Kenneth Anger, Grant Morrison, Adam Parfrey, Douglas Rushkoff, Kembra Pfahler (and the Girls of Karen Black) and more!

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