{"id":482,"date":"2008-04-10T20:42:43","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T02:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=482"},"modified":"2025-01-10T08:23:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:23:54","slug":"mock-up-on-mu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2008\/04\/10\/mock-up-on-mu\/","title":{"rendered":"Mock Up on Mu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><span><span><strong>Thursday, April 10, 6pm<\/strong> | <\/span><\/span><\/span><span><em>Craig Baldwin in person!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<address>\n<dl>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/05\/mu-still450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1872\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/05\/mu-still450.jpg\" alt=\"Craig Baldwin, Mock Up on Mu (2008). Image courtesy of the artist.\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>Craig Baldwin, Mock Up on Mu (2008). Image courtesy of the artist.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/address>\n<p>Legendary for his rapid-fire found-footage collage films, underground filmmaker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.othercinema.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Craig Baldwin<\/a> returns to the Midwest with a special sneak preview of his latest feature, <em>Mock Up on Mu<\/em>. A radically hybridized pulp-serial-spy-science-fiction-western-horror mash-up, <em>Mu<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vids.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&amp;videoid=43836285\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">See the trailer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/2009-01-14\/film\/craig-baldwin-s-mock-up-and-mu-unlocks-and-mocks-the-mysteries-of-scientology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">J. Hoberman review<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2008\/04\/10\/mock-up-on-mu\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Mock Up on Mu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":1872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[211,423,615],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-13","tag-experimental","tag-monographic-shows","tag-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8745,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/8745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}