Disinformation

DVD: Amazon or Deep Discount DVD

Book: Distributed by Tower Books Australia

Disinformation:The Series

R1 DVD

Double DVD Set

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. The first episode seemed tame enough but as the onslaught of intelligence, eccentricity and weirdness increase, it became very clear that the network had no idea what they had paid for. Perhaps they thought this was a bit like Strange Stories or Ripley’s Believe or Not, Disinformation is certainly more challenging that that.

An instant classic of the weird and unusual, the series was a cult it. It was even bought, but never aired by the Sci-Fi Channel in the United States. Disinformation the DVD series comes on two DVD’s and includes everything from modern Satanists (include one who lives with his Christian wife!) to Robot sex, the truth about Montauk to performance art. Along the way we meet demented artists, underground film-makers, literary figures such as Robert Anton Wilson and Howard Blood and redneck self abuse in the form of Uncle Goddam where Jackass meets redneck !

As the bonus the second DVD contains highlights of the Disinfo.Con event featuring Robert Anton Wilson, Douglas Rushkoff, Joe Coleman, Kenneth Anger, Marilyn Manson and others.

It is a R1 DVD release so best to buy it via Amazon or Deep Discount DVD.

At the same time there is only so much you can fit on a DVD. Sure, a picture tells a thousand works but long interviews are not glitzy TV so if you want the meat from the series you need to get the book.

The Disinformation Interviews are comprehensive glimpses of some of the most fascinating people you could ever meet. Each interview is offers an in-depth exploration of the interviewees pet subjects. From Robert Anton Wilson telling us about Aleister Crowley, to Joe Coleman talking on serial killers. Many of these interviews are illustrated so you get to see some of the art shown on the DVDs up close. The Interviews Books packs more than 280 color plates in its 176 pages !

There is so much to bemuse, challenge, offend and stimulate in this book, ranging from high philosophical debate about the biological origins of culture in Howard Bloom, to Kembra Pfalher’s notorious "Wall of Vagina” performance! This is not a book for the shy at heart, it is confronting and very adult. It is worth every cent !!!