Psychic TV: First Transmission

Jan 1, 1982

4h 0m

★ 4.4

Overview

For over 30 years, the so-called First Transmission video from Psychic TV, has been the stuff of, well, “snuff film” legend. First advertised in the back pages of Thee Grey Book , The First Transmission was an ultra weird touchstone of the underground VHS tape trading scene of the 1980s.

Genres

Documentary

Horror

Production Companies

Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth

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Cast

David Tibet

Genesis P-Orridge

Cosey Fanni Tutti

Peter Christopherson

Self (archive footage)

Jim Jones

Brion Gysin

A hybrid feature film that investigates contemporaneity through the body and its countless possibilities of expression and meanings. The film puts the body and the idea of the body in evidence, through metalanguage, articulation and confrontation of documentary, fictional and performative languages. The film follows the trajectory of the main character who uses her own body to formulate universes and investigate the meanings that are drawn in it. In a kind of subjective diary written on her skin, she records sensations and reflections, building relationships with thinkers, performances and archival materials, which lead her to other bodies and other stories.

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Psychic TV: First Transmission

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