The Conspiracy Video that "Takes the Cake"

SIOUX CITY, IA - Professor Benedict Zaroff doesn't have anything good to say about NASA. In fact, if his view of the world had any basis in reality, it would be a scare place indeed. Sioux City videomaker Jeva Singh-Anand's project The Moon Hoax is a thirteen-minute tour de farce in which a fictitious Alex Jones-type citizen journalist exposes the conspiracy of secret societies staging the moonlanding to advance their sinister plot of launching a New World Order, in which mankind is enslaved by extradimensional reptilians from outer space.

From secret to societies to assassinations. From illegal government LSD experiments to to alien antimatter disasters. From phony eyewitnesses to fictitious celebrity relatives. Jeva Singh-Anand's short video, The Moon Hoax, has it all. Starring as Professor Benedict Zaroff of the fictitious Center for Illuminati Studies, he takes the viewer on a thirteen-minute long tour de farce through today's bizarre conspiracy culture.

"Nobody went to the moon," Professor Zaroff explains, "Because the moon doesn't exist anymore."

The hows, wheres and whys involve a complicated mishmash of warring secret societies and government cover-ups. To back up his dubious claims, he produces even more dubious experts and eyewitnesses, such as "1978 Nobel prize laureate" Dr. Stanton Rutherford and Neil Armstrong's (fictitious) younger sister Natasha who claims she, too, participated in the moon landing - as part of a late 1960s psychedelic experience.

The video is shot in documentary style, but it is the sloppy journalism of the conspiracy theorists whose nightmarish vision of the New World Order always outweighs the presence of overwhelming evidence. It's the kind of journalism that presents Sioux City, Iowa's Terra Centre as "NASA Headquarters," Singh-Anand said, and the University of South Dakota's library as UC Berkeley's "Department of Astrophysics." Singh-Anand states, the video was painstakingly researched to ensure it didn't contain "a single factual statemeant about NASA or anything else."

Viewer response has been positive so far, Singh-Anand said, although some comments have surprised him.

"Good thing you put (in) the disclaimer," one person wrote. "People might actually believe this."

"I find it hard to believe that what you are presenting in this documentary is factual. At least entirely," wrote another.

To Singh-Anand, these comments indicate how powerfully hypnotic the mass media have become. The Internet, which allows people to pick and choose their sources of information, has only added to the confusion. While he views the widespread proliferation of information through the web as a positive thing, he cautions that people have to critically evaluate what they see.

"People still have to do their homework in these matters," he said. "The moon landing really happened. And the theories about 'the conspiracy' and the New World Order aren't based on scientific or historical fact."

The video's cast features Jeva Singh-Anand, Edward Allen, PhD. (who knows quite a bit about NASA, but actually teaches creative writing), Jacki Saeemodaeraee, Willard Freemont, and Bobie Themm-Martinez.

The Moon Hoax is available for free viewing at http://www.motheroflies.com .