From: Steve Polta (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Dec 11 2009 - 05:31:02 PST
Dear Friends,
This is an announcement posted as a favor for Craig Baldwin...
THE NEWS:
Just in time for Christmas, his 2008 work MOCK UP ON MU has been released on DVD by his own Other Cinema DVD label.
www.othercinemadvd.com/mu.html
(other good videos on there as well: www.othercinemadvd.com)
from the website:
A radical hybrid of spy, sci-fi, Western, and even horror genres, Craig Baldwin's Mock Up On Mu cobbles together a feature-length "collage-narrative" based on (mostly) true stories of California's post-War sub-cultures of rocket pioneers, alternative religions, and Beat lifestyles. Pulp-serial snippets, industrial-film imagery, and B- (and Z-) fiction clips are intercut with newly shot live-action material, powering a playful, allegorical trajectory through the now-mythic occult matrix of Jack Parsons (Crowleyite founder of the Jet Propulsion Lab), L.Ron Hubbard (sci-fi author turned cult-leader), and Marjorie Cameron (bohemian artist and "mother of the New Age movement"). Their intertwined tales spin out into a speculative farce on the militarization of space, and the corporate take-over of spiritual fulfillment and leisure-time.
from Craig:
Dear Frameworkers, for what it's worth, this is just to inform you of a timely Other Cinema DVD release, Craig Baldwin's "Mock Up On Mu", a "mostly true found-footage farce
on California cults". In fact it touches on the cult of avant-garde cinema in post-War Los Angeles, with Marjorie Cameron and Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard, et. al.
The 110-min. 'collage narrative' comes with a Director's Commentary and a few bonus clips (2 by Damon Packard), and is available through the othercinema.com site. "
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