Stand By for Failure: A Documentary About Negativland (2022): Besetzung, Handlung & Streaming

Released in 2022, Stand By for Failure: A Documentary About Negativland is a notable film.

What it’s about. 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.

Who’s in it. Stand By for Failure: A Documentary About Negativland stars Don Joyce as Himself.

How it landed. With an audience score of 10.0/10, Stand By for Failure: A Documentary About Negativland sits among the best-reviewed titles in the catalogue.

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