Craig Baldwin's Mock Up On Mu is the first example I've seen of his brand of Bruce Conner-influenced experimental cut-up narratives. I get the impression this one differs from most in featuring original material amid the found footage: this is only partially successful, and I wonder if it was necessary. The archive film has such iconic quality, culled as it is from Hollywood movies, documentaries, educational films etc., all bringing their payload of memories and associations to the story, so that no newly-shot material can compete. Also, Baldwin, an exponent of "film povera," or "poor cinema," can't afford production values even on a par with the Prc Z-movies he quotes and misquotes. Still, the fact that all the actors in the specially staged scenes are unconvincingly dubbed is a nice touch: it helps make them feel as contrived and out-of-time as the rest of his jumble of footage.
- 8/5/2011
- MUBI
Feb. 11
8:00 p.m.
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd)
Los Angeles, CA
Hosted by: Other Cinema
San Francisco underground filmmaker Craig Baldwin will attend this special screening of his latest magnum opus, the genuinely epic collage narrative Mock Up on Mu.
Mock Up on Mu has more going on in it per square inch than any other film ever made. It is also the most in-depth futuristic history of the weird state of California. L. Ron Hubbard (Damon Packard) is planning to build a resort on the moon called Mu, but to initiate the project he must dispatch Agent C (Michelle Silva) to convince an amnesiac Jack Parsons (Kalman Spelletich) and Lockheed Martin (Stoney Burke) to build a rocket launchpad in Las Vegas.
The film combines new footage shot by Baldwin with an immense library of found footage from the filmmaker’s massive private stash, some...
8:00 p.m.
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd)
Los Angeles, CA
Hosted by: Other Cinema
San Francisco underground filmmaker Craig Baldwin will attend this special screening of his latest magnum opus, the genuinely epic collage narrative Mock Up on Mu.
Mock Up on Mu has more going on in it per square inch than any other film ever made. It is also the most in-depth futuristic history of the weird state of California. L. Ron Hubbard (Damon Packard) is planning to build a resort on the moon called Mu, but to initiate the project he must dispatch Agent C (Michelle Silva) to convince an amnesiac Jack Parsons (Kalman Spelletich) and Lockheed Martin (Stoney Burke) to build a rocket launchpad in Las Vegas.
The film combines new footage shot by Baldwin with an immense library of found footage from the filmmaker’s massive private stash, some...
- 2/8/2010
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
In his underground favorites Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Across America and Spectres Of The Spectrum, filmmaker/collagist Craig Baldwin has combined archival footage, low-budget B-movie recreations, and only somewhat tongue-in-cheek paranoid ramblings into amusing, oddly persuasive alternate histories of the United States. Baldwin’s Mock Up On Mu deals from the same deck. Beginning on Earth’s moon in the year 2019, Mock Up On Mu looks back at nearly a century of Americana—or, more specifically, Californiana—through intertwined, lightly fictionalized versions of the lives of demagogic pulp author L. Ron Hubbard, notorious occultist Aleister Crowley, New Age guru ...
- 1/13/2010
- avclub.com
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