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Stand By for Failure: A Documentary About Negativland

9.0

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Documentary

2022-11-12

99 mins

The Plot

Since 1959 at the age of five, David "The Weatherman" Wills has been recording his life, self, and anything he likes (such as the weather, toilets flushing, and intercepted cell phone conversations) and broadcasting it to anyone listening. Together with childhood friends Richard Lyons and Mark Hosler they formed Negativland, which quickly became an absurd and noisy multimedia world without boundaries, ownership or privacy. Negativland's complex chaos of plunderphonics poses both serious and silly questions about the nature of culture, media, technology, control, propaganda, power and perception in the United States of America. Is what you're hearing and seeing real or simply familiar? The medium reveals that any message is all in our heads.

Cast and Crew

David 'Weatherman' Wills

David 'Weatherman' Wills

Himself

Richard Lyons

Richard Lyons

Himself

Mark Hosler

Mark Hosler

Himself

Don Joyce

Don Joyce

Himself

Ian Allen

Ian Allen

Himself

Chris Grigg

Chris Grigg

Himself

Peter Conheim

Peter Conheim

Himself

Jon Leidecker

Jon Leidecker

Himself

Videos & Trailers

STAND BY FOR FAILURE / A Documentary about Negativland / TRAILER
FIRST FULL FIVE MINUTES - STAND BY FOR FAILURE - A Negativland Documentary

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