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Negativland: Our Favorite Things
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Negativland: Our Favorite Things

Nov 7, 2007
2h 52m
★ 0.0

Overview

Our Favorite Things is a new DVD/CD release from reigning Kulture Kut-up Kings Negativland. Twenty-seven years of the group's "greatest hits" have become all-new moving pictures in this amazing, years-in-the-making package. Created with 18 other filmmakers from all over the USA (and one a capella group from Detroit), Our Favorite Things is a collaborative project that takes Negativland's sound explorations into the world of film and video. What emerges is a darkly cracked look at 21st century America, juxtaposing paranoia, torture, control, power, weapons, fear, suicide, cola wars, mental illness, and intellectual property issues with the lighter side of dopey advertising, cartoon characters, cleaning products and Jesus.

Genres

Music

Production Companies

Seeland
Other Cinema

Cast

Mark Hosler

Mark Hosler

Chris Grigg

Chris Grigg

Don Joyce

Don Joyce

Richard Lyons

Richard Lyons

David 'Weatherman' Wills

David 'Weatherman' Wills

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