Part of Music City Mondays
General Admission: $25 ($20 Belcourt Members)
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We’ll start the evening with a screening of STAND BY FOR FAILURE: A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT NEGATIVLAND directed by Ryan Worsley, with a Q&A immediately following with the group’s members. After the film and Q&A, experience a live stage performance by Negativland in WE CAN REALLY FEEL LIKE WE’RE HERE, accompanied by SUE-C’s unique and immersive visuals.
About the live show:
Legendary sound collage group Negativland and “real-time cinema” visual artist SUE-C collaborate to bring you their latest audio-visual performance about our minds, our realities, and the evolving forms of media and technology that orchestrate our perceptions as we head into our next election — titled WE CAN REALLY FEEL LIKE WE’RE HERE. Negativland performs with video designed and produced by SUE-C, who appears virtually.
STAND BY FOR FAILURE: A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT NEGATIVLAND
A brand new documentary, followed by a live performance by Negativland, with video design and production by SUE-C.
Early in the career of Bay Area experimental musicians Negativland, Mark Hosler recalls declaring, “Let’s just pretend we’re a band.” Using the safe familiar concept of “a band” as cover for their culture-jamming mayhem, the multimedia collective went on to test the limits of composition, sound and copyright laws, while gathering more members and ardent fans along the way.
Filmmaker and frequent Negativland collaborator Ryan Worsley has amplified, expanded and recontextualized sounds and images from the band’s 40-plus year career into a documentary that breaks free of the typical behind-the-music narrative. Pulling from a wealth of recordings, home movies, performances, news reports, interviews and intercepted radio signals, STAND BY FOR FAILURE is a riptide collage of media about media about media.
After the movie, Negativland and “real-time cinema” visual artist SUE-C (appearing virtually) collaborate to bring you their latest audio-visual performance about our minds, our realities and the evolving forms of media and technology.
“Undoubtedly outside the box…. If you want to be inspired by individuals who dare to bust down the doors of art’s gatekeepers, then STAND BY FOR FAILURE: A NEGATIVLAND DOCUMENTARY is the way to go.” —Alan Ng, Film Threat “One could probably make a pretty entertaining conventional documentary about Negativland’s career — which is filled with enough outrageous anecdotes to sustain an entire miniseries — but such an approach would be thoroughly un-Negativland. Instead, director Ryan Worsley (a frequent Negativland collaborator) constructs her film in the style of a Negativland album, weaving together performance footage, home movies, and vintage news reports into a dense, feature-length montage.” —Oscar Goff, Boston Hassle
