A co-presentation of Upstate Films, PlayTime, and Wave Farm in anticipation of a major live event at the Greenville Drive-in. Since childhood, David “The Weatherman” Wills has recorded and reported on anything that grabs his attention. When he and friends Richard Lyons and Mark Hosler formed Negativland, it soon became a collage of sounds and visuals, both ordinary and extraordinary. The group’s work is so expansive and unique that it cannot help but push boundaries of sound, media, propaganda, and perception. (Ryan Worsley, US, 2022, 99m). More information and tickets at https://www.upstatefilms.org/stand-by-for-failure-w-film-director-ryan-worsley-and-negativlands-mark-hosler-via-skype-sonic-wave-weekly-close-up

“Few artists have logged as many hours on the battlefield of fair use, let alone questioned as persistently the associated legal constraints around intellectual property, as Negativland, whose sonic, visual and performance appropriations and parodies have challenged eyeballs, eardrums and moral standards alike since the late 1970s.” — The Wire