Stand By for Failure – A Documentary About Negativland

Los Angeles Filmforum presents *Stand By for Failure: A Documentary About Negativland,* directed by Ryan Worsley. 2022, digital color, sound, 96 minutes. LA Premiere with Negativland in person! ∆ “Every bit as mind-altering as its subjects.”- Oscar Goff, Boston Hassle “Much of the film layers eviscerated visuals into a vaudevillian media kaleidoscope.” - Marc Weidenbaum, *The Wire* 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. ~ Negativland is an American experimental music band that originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. The core of the band consists of Mark Hosler, David Wills, Peter Conheim and Jon Leidecker. Negativland has released a number of albums ranging from pure sound collage to more musical expositions. They perform at 2220 Arts on Friday night, Sept 18.