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\nFormat:<\/B> DVD (NSTC Region 0)

\nDistributor:<\/B> Other Cinema

\nDirector:<\/B> Craig Baldwin

\nWriter:<\/B> Craig Baldwin

\nCast:<\/B> Stoney Burke, Jeri Lynn Cohen, Damon Packard, Michelle Silva

\nUSA 2008

\n114 mins\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Craig Baldwin has made some of the finest underground feature films of the last 20 years. He draws on the visual detritus of the 20th century, using found footage liberated from B-movies, educational shorts, long-lost adverts and many other sources, and creates an aesthetic of recontextualised images melded to his own narrative ends. From his conspiratorial epic Tribulation 99<\/I> (1991) through to Spectres of the Spectrum<\/I> (1999), Baldwin has engaged with the history and secret histories of the 20th century, tearing through accepted fact and outré conspiracy theories, reality and hyper-reality. His latest feature, Mock Up on Mu<\/I>, delves deep into Baldwin’s interests in science fiction, rocket science, occult California and the New Age. <\/p>\n

Mixing his familiar plunderphonic methods with original footage of his small cast (including underground filmmaker Damon Packard), Mock Up on Mu<\/I> draws on the biographies of magickian and rocket scientist Jack Parsons, occultist and Beat artist Marjorie Cameron and Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard. A sci-fi history mash-up, the film spins biography, pseudo-biography, actuality, conspiracy and speculation with a gleeful disregard for any distinctions. Baldwin detours into plots and subplots that subvert the historical record. But he isn’t just creating a fantasy so much as he is exploring the mythologies that already existed beneath the collective notion of history. Reality is more than reality and fantasy is more than fantasy. <\/p>\n

For more details, visit the Other Cinema website<\/A>. Watch the first chapter<\/A>.<\/div>\n

Like his previous works, Mock Up on Mu<\/I> is tightly edited, rapid-paced, informative and irreverent, and coming in at nearly two hours there’s enough here to watch and re-watch. The world may ever seem quite the same again.<\/p>\n

Jack Sargeant<\/B><\/I><\/p>\n

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A sci-fi history mash-up, the film spins biography, pseudo-biography, actuality, conspiracy and speculation with a gleeful disregard for any distinctions.
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