Stand By for Failure: A Documentary About Negativland

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Stand By for Failure: A Documentary About Negativland (2022)

Directed by Ryan Worsley

“Everything you want is true, even if it isn't”

Documentary · 1h 39m

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.

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Cast

D
David 'Weatherman' Wills Himself
R
Richard Lyons Himself
M
Mark Hosler Himself
D
Don Joyce Himself
I
Ian Allen Himself
C
Chris Grigg Himself
P
Peter Conheim Himself
J
Jon Leidecker Himself

Crew

Director
Ryan Worsley
Editor
Ryan Worsley

Details

Release date
2022-11-12
Runtime
1h 39m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
United States of America