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Web: http://www.othercinemaDVD.comOther Cinema DVD Releases Negativland's "Our Favorite Things"
(San Francisco, CA) OCD proudly announces the upcoming release of NEGATIVLAND’S “OUR FAVORITE THINGS”. This DVD/CD release from America’s reigning Kulture Kut-up Kings will be available on November 20, 2007.
Twenty-seven years of the group's "greatest hits" 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.
“Declared heroic by their peers for refashioning culture into what the group considers to be more honest statements, Negativland suggests that refusing to be original, in the traditional sense, is the only way to make art that has any depth within commodity capitalism...”- The New York Times
“Negativland isn't just some group of merry pranksters; its art is about tearing apart and reassembling found images to create new ones, in an attempt to make social, political and artistic statements. Hilarious and chilling.” - The Onion
“Negativland, longtime advocates of fair use allowances for pop media collage, are perhaps America's most skilled plunderers from the detritus of 20th century commercial culture...” - Wired Magazine
“Twisted genius...compelling.....parody and satire as a grass roots weapon of consumer resistance.”- Rolling Stone
NEGATIVLAND’S “OUR FAVORITE THINGS”
172 minutes
Price: $24.95
Pre-Order: October 30, 2007
Street: November 20, 2007
Featuring:
Time Zones • Christianity Is Stupid • I Still Haven't Found What I’m Looking For •
Gimme The Mermaid • Greatest Taste Around • Over The Hiccups • Guns •
Yellow, Black And Rectangular • Aluminum or Glass • Favorite Things •
Taste In Mind • Truth In Advertising • Humanitarian Effort • Drink It Up • Freedom's Waiting • Why Is This Commercial? • Learning To Communicate •
The Bottom Line
Extras:
• At Home With The Weatherman
• The long lost “Visit Howland Island”
• KPIX News Ax Murder Hoax Broadcast
• Anomalies Of The Unconscious
For more information, or to set up an interview with Negativland, please e-mail info@othercinemaDVD.com
The DVD can be ordered online at http://www.othercinemadvd.com/neg.htmlWholesale orders can be made through these distributors:
Microcinema International
P: 415-864-0660
F: 509-351-1530
info@microcinema.com
http://www.microcinema.com
LMMG
P: 419-340-2979
F: 419-726-3935
sales@lumberjackmordam.com
http://www.lumberjackmordam.com/
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