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Poster for the film Stand By for Failure: A Documentary About NegativlandPoster for the film Stand By for Failure: A Documentary About Negativland

Stand By for Failure: A Documentary About Negativland

2022

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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D'WD'W
David 'Weatherman' Wills

as Himself

RLRL
Richard Lyons

as Himself

MHMH
Mark Hosler

as Himself

DJDJ
Don Joyce

as Himself

IAIA
Ian Allen

as Himself

CGCG
Chris Grigg

as Himself

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