Disinfo.Con (2007)

February. 20,2007

| Documentary

Disinfo.Con contains an amazing 4 hours of footage from The Disinformation Company's massive counterculture event in New York City's Hammerstein Ballroom. New York hadn't seen anything like this since the Nova Convention in 1978 which saw Frank Zappa, Patti Smith and others anoint William Burroughs as king of the counterculture. A quarter century later Disinformation's keynote speakers Richard Metzger and Douglas Rushkoff ushered in a dizzying, day-long array of performances ranging from sword-swallowing to sanskrit chanting, interspersed with lectures and conversations with counterculture luminaries like Mondo 2000 founder R.U. Sirius, industrial music progenitor Genesis P-Orridge, Grant Morrison, Robert Anton Wilson, theorists, performance artists and others from the extremes of popular culture. Nothing beats actually experiencing an event like this in the flesh, but this DVD comes pretty close to capturing the spirit of the counterculture as we lurch into the 21st century.

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Cast

Richard Metzger as Self

[2009] FLicKeR [2007] Disinfo.Con [2006] disinfoTV on DVD

Douglas Rushkoff as Self

[2013] American Jesus [2011] Programming the Nation? [2010] Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods [2010] Winnebago Man [2007] Disinfo.Con [2003] Maybe Logic: The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson

Grant Morrison as Self

[2018] Mom and Dad [2018] Temple of Art [2015] The Death of "Superman Lives": What Happened? [2014] Future Shock! The Story of 2000AD [2013] Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle [2013] Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle

Reviews

Plantiana

2007/02/20

Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

FeistyUpper

2007/02/21

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Pluskylang

2007/02/22

Great Film overall

FuzzyTagz

2007/02/23

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.