Stand By for Failure: A Documentary About Negativland
Stand By for Failure: A Documentary About Negativland
| 12 November 2022 (USA)
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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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Lumsdal

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

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Infamousta

brilliant actors, brilliant editing

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Billie Morin

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

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Guillelmina

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

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