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.

The OUR FAVORITE THINGS DVD includes over 60 minutes of never-before-seen bonus material, and, for those who would rather shut their eyes tight and just listen, it also comes with a full-length CD which isn't by Negativland at all: "180 DGs TO THE FUTURE!" by the Gospel R & B Doo-Wop group, The 180-Gs. You'll be all ears as this talented posse from inner Detroit sings out heavenly cover versions of Negativland's best (and least) known cut-up collage work from throughout their career, making for one of the strangest recordings you have ever heard.

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

All films in a printable format

Our Favorite Things directed by , and USA, Experimental, 2007, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 02:52:00 A suggestively charming assemblage of collage and classic cut-up entertainment created by experimental music group Negativland in collaboration with 17 filmmakers from around the world. This collaborative pro... more info

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Reviews and Other Info:

2007-10-03  Wired Magazine 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...

2007-10-03  The New York Times 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...

2007-10-03  Rolling Stone Twisted genius...compelling.....parody and satire as a grass roots weapon of consumer resistance.

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Extras * At Home With The Weatherman * The Long Lost Visit Howland Island * KPIX

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