Stand By for Failure: A Documentary About Negativland poster

Stand By for Failure: A Documentary About Negativland

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

8.3(3)20221h 39m2

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.

Share WhatsApp Telegram
Status
Released
Budget
—
Box office
—
Language
English

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Ryan Worsley

Produced in

United States of America

Gallery

Still from Stand By for Failure: A Documentary About NegativlandStill from Stand By for Failure: A Documentary About NegativlandStill from Stand By for Failure: A Documentary About Negativland

Videos

Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereOther Cinema - San Francisco12 Nov 2022
    • PremierePhilaMOCA - Philadelphia17 Nov 2022

Frequently asked questions

Stand By for Failure: A Documentary About Negativland was released on 12 November 2022.

Member reviews

Sign in to rate and review. Browsing stays free and open.

Sign in

Member comments

0

Sign in to post a comment. Browsing stays free and open.

Sign in

More like this