Sunday, May 4, 2008 @ 8:00 PM
Mock Up on Mu
Presented by PDX Fest and The Northwest Film Center
Artist-in-attendance
Mock Up on Mu
Craig Baldwin
114 mins/NW Premiere
We are incredibly excited to present a sneak preview of Craig Baldwin’s latest feature film! A radical hybrid of spy, sci-fi, Western, and even horror genres, Mock Up On Mu musters the creative audacity to take up within its absurdly impossible ‘collage-narrative’ agency the profoundly serious issue of the militarization of space. Based (mostly) on historical fact, Mu explores the occult rituals of 3 seminal figures in post-War California - Jet Propulsion Laboratory founder Jack Parsons, his partner artist Marjorie Cameron, and Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. Using original live-action footage inter-cut with both fiction and non-fiction archival material Baldwin weaves a dense, farcical tale of mind-control, subterranean intrigue, and aerospace speculation …And in pulp-serial form to boot!
About Craig Baldwin
Craig Baldwin is a filmmaker and curator whose interests lie in archival retrieval and recombinatory forms of cinema, performance, and installation. Inspired by the Neo-Dadaist aesthetic that thrives in Bay Area artistic communities as well as the Situationists’ strategies of detournement and media intervention, Baldwin’s body of work includes Sonic Outlaws, Tribulation 99, and Spectres of the Spectrum. Over the last two decades, his productions have been shown and awarded at numerous international festivals, museums, and institutes of contemporary art, often in conjunction with panels, juries, and workshops on collage and cultural activism. His own weekly screening project, Other Cinema, has continued to premiere experimental, essay, and documentary works for over a quarter century, recently expanding into DVD publishing.