It’s fitting that this documentary about pioneering culture jammers Negativland takes the form of a mesmerising audio-visual bricolage in their own fashion. (It’s also fitting that I happened upon it while clicking around YouTube on a Monday night, much like a teenage Wobbly randomly tuned his radio to Over the Edge and had his mind blown.) But the medium doesn’t get in the way of the message, which is less a biographical history of the group (we can all read Wikipedia for that) than an exploration of their deep friendship over the decades, an often profoundly touching meditation on memory and expression through art but an exercise that refuses to review the past through squant-tinted glasses. (Also, it turns out David Wills just talks like that, he’s not putting it on!) ★★★★
Cross-posted from Letterboxd