Ryan Worsley
Directing
Biography
Ryan Worsley is a DIY documentary filmmaker that often reconstructs and recontextualizes fragmented found footage to celebrate glorious mundanity (SHIT HAPPENS, 2016) and the heroism in failure (RAZING THE BAR, 2014). Her collaboration with Negativland has resulted in five music videos, a concert film and two feature length documentaries.
Known For

Since 1959 at the age of five, David "The Weatherman" Wills has been recording his life, self, and anything he likes (such as the weather, toilets flushing, and intercepted cell phone conversations) and broadcasting it to anyone listening. Together with childhood friends Richard Lyons and Mark Hosler they formed Negativland, which quickly became an absurd and noisy multimedia world without boundaries, ownership or privacy. Negativland's complex chaos of plunderphonics poses both serious and silly questions about the nature of culture, media, technology, control, propaganda, power and perception in the United States of America. Is what you're hearing and seeing real or simply familiar? The medium reveals that any message is all in our heads.
Stand By for Failure: A Documentary About Negativland

When Don Joyce and Negativland discovered their mutual love for “found” sounds, an intensely collaborative creative partnership was cemented. It continued non-stop for the ensuing decades, with Don endlessly scanning the airwaves of radio and television, along with his massive LP collection, for new material, day by day, week by week. “It was Don who took the idea of reshaping previously recorded words – in a pre-sampling age – and ran with it to an extent and depth never before heard, and never equaled. ‘Recontextualization’ became his weapon, with the 1/4” tape machine and razor blade his ammunition, and the radio ‘cart player’ – an entirely forgotten piece of broadcast history using endless-loop tape cartridges, which he used until he death – his delivery system.” -Negativland
How Radio Isn't Done

Live cinema visual artist SUE-C and legendary sound collage group Negativland collaborate in a live audio-visual performance about our minds, the world we live in, and the evolving forms of media and technology that orchestrate our perceptions.
It's Normal for Some Things to Come to Your Attention
This motion picture contains the story of 4 or 5 floptops known as Negativland. Since 1980 they have created records, CDs, video, fine art, books, live performance and radio using sounds, images, objects, and text. This film chronicles the 38 year history of one of America’s most controversial bands: Negativland.
Media About Media About Media: The Negativland Story

A documentary captures a mother and daughter taking mushrooms together, providing a rare first hand glimpse into the psychedelic experience.
Joshua Tree

Razing the Bar documents the development and eventual demolition of a well-loved fringe punk rock Seattle venue through interviews of employees, friends, and a multitude of local musicians.
Razing the Bar: A Documentary About the Funhouse

Loveable serial killer, "Red Toole" meets his soul-mate "Violet". They fall instantly in love...and murder a Greek architecht. Tons of romantic fun for everyone!
Red's Breakfast 2: Dawn Of The Red

When did online life become a non-stop Turing test? And when did humans become the ones who are failing it? It began nearly two decades ago, when advertising models staked out their territory over the data used to structure our online lives.