
Banned from Television II
1998

Representation Score
Good
1982
Runtime
240 minutes
Average Rating
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Psychic TV: First Transmission stands as a significant piece of counter-cultural expression. It excels by fundamentally challenging Western hierarchies and deconstructing established social and gender norms. The film’s strength lies in its radical questioning of traditional gender roles and masculine authority. It provides a platform for non-traditional gender perspectives and queer identities. However, the work remains culturally narrow, focusing primarily on Western underground subcultures without much racial or ethnic diversity.
Category Breakdown
The film features Genesis P-Orridge, who brings a non-traditional gender perspective that challenges the idea that everyone is straight or cisgender. This involvement ensures a narrative that questions traditional binary structures.
Cosey Fanni Tutti’s participation helps challenge traditional gender roles and masculine authority. The film uses the body to question established gender hierarchies and masculine dominance.
The production centers on Western underground subcultures without much emphasis on racial diversity. There is no indication of a non-white majority cast or intentional racial diversity.
The film uses rituals and transgressive imagery to critique organized religion and mainstream morality. It emphasizes social non-conformity and the rejection of institutionalized social orders.
There is no evidence of disability being portrayed in the film. The work does not seem to use disability as a central plot device or for mockery.
Present on Screen
Limited or Absent
Official Synopsis
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.

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