Weatherman '69

Overview

Featuring a cast that includes Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, Mike Watt of the legendary hardcore band Minutemen, and Pettibon himself, this deadpan narrative pays dubious homage to the 1960's radical underground. In this crudely rendered home video of a commune of stoned revolutionaries, the cameras are hand-held, the edits in-camera, and the dialogue is wryly on-target. Pettibon's band of outsiders reenacts a countercultural moment defined by rock music, drugs, and ideological paradox — and in so doing, captures their own late-80's West Coast grunge milieu as well.

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Cast

Kim Gordon

Bernadine Dohrn

Thurston Moore

Jeff Jones

Mike Watt

Gabe Nemisch

Abby Travis

Jane Fonda

Joe Cole

David Markey

Allen Ginsberg/Yoko Ono

Raymond Pettibon

Serge Soulberg

Bob Balhatchet

El Kahane

Davo Claassen

Wayne Kahane

Daniel V. Adams

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