Weatherman '69

Weatherman '69

120 mins | Drama, Comedy | Nov. 17, 1989

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.

Weatherman '69

120 mins | Drama, Comedy | Nov. 17, 1989

Weatherman '69
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.
Producers
Original title Weatherman '69
Directors Raymond Pettibon
Writers

Cast

Kim Gordon

as Bernadine Dohrn

Thurston Moore

as Jeff Jones

Mike Watt

as Gabe Nemisch

Abby Travis

as Jane Fonda

David Markey

as Allen Ginsberg/Yoko Ono

Raymond Pettibon

as Serge Soulberg