Disinfo.Con 17 years old
Amazing... Cutting-edge... Weird and fun, anything goes when it's CYBERPALOOZA.
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.
Credits
Disinfo.Con Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Marilyn Manson He was 38, now 55 years old | as Himself |
| Douglas Rushkoff He was 46, now 63 years old | as Himself |
| Grant Morrison He was 47, now 64 years old | as Himself |
| Kenneth Anger He was 80, now 97 years old | as Himself |
| Richard Metzger He was 41, now 59 years old | as Himself |
| Kembra Pfahler She was 45, now 63 years old | as Herself |
| Robert Anton Wilson He was 75, 74 years old when he died | as Himself |
| Joe Coleman He was 51, now 69 years old | as Himself |
| Adam Parfrey He was 49, 61 years old when he died | as Himself |
| Mark Pesce He was 44, now 62 years old | as Himself |
Disinfo.Con Crew
| Name | Department |
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Disinfo.Con (17 years)
Amazing... Cutting-edge... Weird and fun, anything goes when it's CYBERPALOOZA.
- Release day: Tuesday, February 20, 2007
- Runtime: 240 minutes