Thursday, April 10, 6pm | Craig Baldwin in person!
- Craig Baldwin, Mock Up on Mu (2008). Image courtesy of the artist.
Legendary for his rapid-fire found-footage collage films, underground filmmaker Craig Baldwin returns to the Midwest with a special sneak preview of his latest feature, Mock Up on Mu. A radically hybridized pulp-serial-spy-science-fiction-western-horror mash-up, Mu recounts the intertwined histories of Jack Parsons (inventor of solid-rocket fuel, founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Aleister Crowley acolyte), Marjorie Cameron (artist, beatnik, occultist) and L. Ron Hubbard (pulp-fiction writer, founder of Scientology). Baldwin promiscuously intercuts his own live-action desert footage with archival stock and other found material to weave a dense tale of mind-control, subterranean intrigue, scientific speculation, and the militarization of space. 2008, Craig Baldwin, USA, 115 min, 16mm on Beta SP.
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