Stand By For Failure: A Documentary About Negativland

Sunday, September 22, 2024

Presented by Outer Reaches

Saturday, September 21 at RecordBar:
Negativland + SUE-C “We Can Really Feel Like We’re Here” live performance

Sunday, September 22 at Charlotte Street:
FREE screening of Stand By For Failure: A Documentary About Negativland by Ryan Worsley. Q&A immediately following with members of Negativland and the director.

About “Stand By For Failure: A Documentary About Negativland” by director Ryan Worsley:

“If you want to be inspired by individuals who dare to bust down the doors of art’s gatekeepers, then Stand By For Failure is the way to go.”—Film Threat

Film summary: In 1978 David “The Weatherman” Wills, Richard Lyons and Mark Hosler 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 sound, media, technology, control, propaganda, power and perception in the global village. Negativland continue to be pioneers of art in the electric age, and the medium reveals that any message is all in our heads.

Learn more at: standbyforfailure.com
Watch the trailer!

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