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

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

Documentary

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

Release Date: 2022, November 12
Directors: Ryan Worsley
Countries: United States of America
Cast: Ian Allen, David 'Weatherman' Wills, Richard Lyons, Mark Hosler, Don Joyce, Chris Grigg, Peter Conheim, Jon Leidecker

Overview:

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.