Weatherman '69 (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.
Director: Raymond Pettibon
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Kim Gordon as Bernadine Dohrn |
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Thurston Moore as Jeff Jones |
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Mike Watt as Gabe Nemisch |
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Abby Travis as Jane Fonda |
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Joe Cole as |
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David Markey as Allen Ginsberg/Yoko Ono |
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Raymond Pettibon as Serge Soulberg |
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Bob Balhatchet as El Kahane |
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Davo Claassen as Wayne Kahane |
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Daniel V. Adams as Catnip Goldbug |
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Crane Doe as Tom Hayden |
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Henry Vincent as John Lennon |
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Janet Housden as Marav |
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Linda B. Stone as Billy Jean Sweetness |
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Nelson Tarpenny as Cocky the Red |
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Junebug Soiree as Prissy |
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Icarus Glorfindel as Butch |
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Steve Stelter as Stix |
| Directing | Raymond Pettibon | Director |
| Writing | Raymond Pettibon | Writer |
| Camera | Raymond Pettibon | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Daniel V. Adams | Director of Photography |
| Camera | David Markey | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Dave Travis | Director of Photography |