Weatherman '69 (1989)
The Whole World is Watching
120 min
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
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Kim Gordon as Bernadine Dohrn
- Thurston Moore as Jeff Jones
- Mike Watt as Gabe Nemisch
- Michael Hecht as Mark Rudd
- Joey Halsman as Salt Pickle
- Joe Cole as Jiggs Pottios
- Joe Cole as Gyorghi Truax
- Davo Claassen as Wayne Kahane
- Abby Travis as Jane Fonda
- David Markey as Allen Ginsberg
- David Markey as Yoko Ono
- Daniel V. Adams as Catnip Goldbug
Crew
- Raymond Pettibon · Director
- Raymond Pettibon · Writer
- Raymond Pettibon · Producer
- Daniel V. Adams · Cinematographer
- David Markey · Cinematographer
- Raymond Pettibon · Cinematographer
- Dave Travis · Cinematographer
- Daniel V. Adams · Editor
- Raymond Pettibon · Editor
- Joel Rane · Editor