Stand By for Failure: A Documentary About Negativland

(2022)

★ 8.3 IMDb · 3 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2022

Runtime: 99 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Ryan Worsley

Cast: David 'Weatherman' Wills, Richard Lyons, Mark Hosler, Don Joyce, Ian Allen, Chris Grigg, Peter Conheim, Jon Leidecker

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.