Weatherman '69

The Whole World is Watching

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.

• Release date
• November 17, 1989
• Runtime
• 120 min
• Genres
• Comedy, Drama
• Director
• Raymond Pettibon

Cast

Kim Gordon Bernadine Dohrn Thurston Moore Jeff Jones Mike Watt Gabe Nemisch

A

Abby Travis Jane Fonda Joe Cole David Markey Allen Ginsberg/Yoko Ono

R

Raymond Pettibon Serge Soulberg

B

Bob Balhatchet El Kahane