Craig Baldwin comes to town with MOCK UP ON MU for the OTHER CINEMA BLOWOUT at the Guild Cinema
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Apr 13, 2009, 8:17:50 PM4/13/09
to Basement Films
We've hosted him several times over the past 15 years & it's always a
complete blast! Dvds of most of the screened titles will be for sale.
See info below, thanks for your time, feel free to pass this good info
along...
WHAT: Basement Films, Experiments in Cinema V4.2 & the Guild Cinema
will be collaborating to bring Bay area underground filmmaker &
collage artist Craig Baldwin to Albuquerque to curate 3 double
features of Other Cinema represented works including his newest movie
MOCK UP ON MU which will play each night. All screenings will take
place at the Guild Cinema in the Nob Hill area 3405 Central NE. Works
to be shown, dates & times include:
APRIL 13 - 15( MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY)
OTHER CINEMA BLOWOUT FEATURING CRAIG BALDWIN IN PERSON!
THREE DAYS, THREE SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT DOUBLE FEATURES AT ONLY $8 PER!
MONDAY APRIL 13:
7PM: DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Dir. Johann Grimonprez - 1998 - 68m
Pre 9/11 hijacking documentary exposing the media’s complicity in
terror - Director Johan Grimonprez investigates the politics behind
this change, at the same time unwrapping our own complicity in the
urge for ultimate disaster. Playing on Don DeLillo's riff in his novel
Mao II: "what terrorists gain, novelists lose" and "home is a failed
idea", he blends archival footage of hijackings with surreal and banal
themes, including fast food, pet statistics, disco, and his quirky
home movies. David Shea composed the superb soundtrack to this free
fall through history, best described in the words of one hijacked
Pepsi executive as "running the gamut of many emotions, from surprise
to shock to fear, to joy, to laughter, and then again, fear."
8:30PM: MOCK UP ON MU
Dir. Craig Baldwin - 2008 - 110m
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.
TUESDAY APRIL 14:
6:15PM: THE NET
Dir. Lutz Dammbeck - 2003 - 115m
Ultimately stunning in its revelations, Lutz Dammbeck’s THE NET
explores the incredibly complex backstory of Ted Kaczynski, the
infamous Unabomber. This exquisitely crafted inquiry into the
rationale of this mythic figure situates him within a late 20th
Century web of technology – a system that he grew to oppose. A
marvelously subversive approach to the history of the Internet, this
insightful documentary combines speculative travelogue and
investigative journalism to trace contrasting countercultural
responses to the cybernetic revolution.
8:30PM: MOCK UP ON MU
Dir. Craig Baldwin - 2008 - 110m
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.
WEDNESDAY APRIL 15:
6:45PM: SANTIAGO ALVAREZ
Dir. Santiago Avarez - 1959 to 1998 - 90m approx.
The films of Cuban Director Santiago Alvarez exist as a kind of
fractured mirror on the last 40 years of American history – a
subversive alternate history. In a film career that began only with
the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959 and continued until his
death in 1998, Alverez created 700 films.Lacking formal training of
any sort, Alvarez was appointed head of the fledgling Cuban Film
Institute now legendary newsreel division, Noticerio ICAIC. Under his
command for the next thirty years, the banal and utilitarian newsreel
was transformed into a veritable laboratory of radical innovation.
8:30PM: MOCK UP ON MU
Dir. Craig Baldwin - 2008 - 110m
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.
HOW MUCH: only $8 a double feature, a bargain in these tough economic
times!
CONTACT: Craig Baldwin, othe...@hotmail.com or Keif Henley,
in...@guildcinema.com . Photos & screeners available upon request!
ABOUT OTHER CINEMA:
OTHER CINEMA (visit their website at www.othercinema.com), a huge
influence on Albuquerque experimental film group Basement Films, is a
long-standing bastion of experimental film, video, and performance in
San Francisco's Mission District. They are inspired and sustained by
the ongoing practice of fine-art filmmaking, as well as engaged essay
and documentary forms. But OC also embraces marginalized genres like
"orphan" industrial films, home movies, ethnography, and exploitation,
as media-archeological core-samples, and blows against consensus
reality and the sterility of museum culture.
Whether avant-garde or engagé, the emphasis is on the radical
subjectivities and sub-cultural sensibilities that find expression in
what used to be called "underground cinema".
Their calendars are curated on a semi-annual basis, mostly comprised
of polymorphous group shows--several pieces, in different moving-image
and intermedia formats--organized around a common theme. Almost always
the artist herself appears in person, bringing new work to a energized
microcinema audience opting for the provocative images and ideas only
available in a non-commercial and non-academic salon environment.
Conceived and stewarded by Craig Baldwin, with a whole lotta help from
ATA Gallery, Steve Polta, Christine Metropoulos, and others in a core
collective whose commitment has created a space for contemporary
cinematic expression and exchange.
SPONSOR INFO:
EXPERIMENTS IN CINEMA: For the past two decades media archeologist
Bryan Konefsky has traveled to the far reaches of the globe collecting
unusual examples of visionary cinema and un-dependent moving image
art. In a very rare public appearance, Bryan Konefsky will share
highlights of his historic media findings with Albuquerque and the
world!! You will be shocked and amazed by cinema produced for less
than $1,000! Marvel at movies that do not feature Tom Cruise or Coca
Cola! Witness film artists who have the audacity to thumb their noses
at Hollywood’s silver screen! Do not miss this program of scandalously
produced short, non-narrative films that do not depend on pyrotechnic
effects or crane shots to tell their stories! An annual international
film & video festival of the un-typical right here in Albuquerque!
Contact Bryan at bry...@unm.edu.
BASEMENT FILMS: A non-profit local arts organization whose mission is
to support artists creating under-represented film & video, provide
alternative cinematic experiences for the public, and facilitate
community awareness and dialogue about experimental & under-
represented cinema. Contact base...@swcp.com or
baseme...@riseup.net .
GUILD CINEMA: Albuquerque's oldest still-running movie theater & its
only single screen independently, locally-owned, year round movie
house showing eclectic cinema (ranging from social/political
documentaries, locally made movies, older repertory cinema,
independent flicks, foreign international cinema to cult & drive in
classics, psychotronic movies, etc. ) 7 days a week.
complete blast! Dvds of most of the screened titles will be for sale.
See info below, thanks for your time, feel free to pass this good info
along...
WHAT: Basement Films, Experiments in Cinema V4.2 & the Guild Cinema
will be collaborating to bring Bay area underground filmmaker &
collage artist Craig Baldwin to Albuquerque to curate 3 double
features of Other Cinema represented works including his newest movie
MOCK UP ON MU which will play each night. All screenings will take
place at the Guild Cinema in the Nob Hill area 3405 Central NE. Works
to be shown, dates & times include:
APRIL 13 - 15( MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY)
OTHER CINEMA BLOWOUT FEATURING CRAIG BALDWIN IN PERSON!
THREE DAYS, THREE SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT DOUBLE FEATURES AT ONLY $8 PER!
MONDAY APRIL 13:
7PM: DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Dir. Johann Grimonprez - 1998 - 68m
Pre 9/11 hijacking documentary exposing the media’s complicity in
terror - Director Johan Grimonprez investigates the politics behind
this change, at the same time unwrapping our own complicity in the
urge for ultimate disaster. Playing on Don DeLillo's riff in his novel
Mao II: "what terrorists gain, novelists lose" and "home is a failed
idea", he blends archival footage of hijackings with surreal and banal
themes, including fast food, pet statistics, disco, and his quirky
home movies. David Shea composed the superb soundtrack to this free
fall through history, best described in the words of one hijacked
Pepsi executive as "running the gamut of many emotions, from surprise
to shock to fear, to joy, to laughter, and then again, fear."
8:30PM: MOCK UP ON MU
Dir. Craig Baldwin - 2008 - 110m
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.
TUESDAY APRIL 14:
6:15PM: THE NET
Dir. Lutz Dammbeck - 2003 - 115m
Ultimately stunning in its revelations, Lutz Dammbeck’s THE NET
explores the incredibly complex backstory of Ted Kaczynski, the
infamous Unabomber. This exquisitely crafted inquiry into the
rationale of this mythic figure situates him within a late 20th
Century web of technology – a system that he grew to oppose. A
marvelously subversive approach to the history of the Internet, this
insightful documentary combines speculative travelogue and
investigative journalism to trace contrasting countercultural
responses to the cybernetic revolution.
8:30PM: MOCK UP ON MU
Dir. Craig Baldwin - 2008 - 110m
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.
WEDNESDAY APRIL 15:
6:45PM: SANTIAGO ALVAREZ
Dir. Santiago Avarez - 1959 to 1998 - 90m approx.
The films of Cuban Director Santiago Alvarez exist as a kind of
fractured mirror on the last 40 years of American history – a
subversive alternate history. In a film career that began only with
the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959 and continued until his
death in 1998, Alverez created 700 films.Lacking formal training of
any sort, Alvarez was appointed head of the fledgling Cuban Film
Institute now legendary newsreel division, Noticerio ICAIC. Under his
command for the next thirty years, the banal and utilitarian newsreel
was transformed into a veritable laboratory of radical innovation.
8:30PM: MOCK UP ON MU
Dir. Craig Baldwin - 2008 - 110m
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.
HOW MUCH: only $8 a double feature, a bargain in these tough economic
times!
CONTACT: Craig Baldwin, othe...@hotmail.com or Keif Henley,
in...@guildcinema.com . Photos & screeners available upon request!
ABOUT OTHER CINEMA:
OTHER CINEMA (visit their website at www.othercinema.com), a huge
influence on Albuquerque experimental film group Basement Films, is a
long-standing bastion of experimental film, video, and performance in
San Francisco's Mission District. They are inspired and sustained by
the ongoing practice of fine-art filmmaking, as well as engaged essay
and documentary forms. But OC also embraces marginalized genres like
"orphan" industrial films, home movies, ethnography, and exploitation,
as media-archeological core-samples, and blows against consensus
reality and the sterility of museum culture.
Whether avant-garde or engagé, the emphasis is on the radical
subjectivities and sub-cultural sensibilities that find expression in
what used to be called "underground cinema".
Their calendars are curated on a semi-annual basis, mostly comprised
of polymorphous group shows--several pieces, in different moving-image
and intermedia formats--organized around a common theme. Almost always
the artist herself appears in person, bringing new work to a energized
microcinema audience opting for the provocative images and ideas only
available in a non-commercial and non-academic salon environment.
Conceived and stewarded by Craig Baldwin, with a whole lotta help from
ATA Gallery, Steve Polta, Christine Metropoulos, and others in a core
collective whose commitment has created a space for contemporary
cinematic expression and exchange.
SPONSOR INFO:
EXPERIMENTS IN CINEMA: For the past two decades media archeologist
Bryan Konefsky has traveled to the far reaches of the globe collecting
unusual examples of visionary cinema and un-dependent moving image
art. In a very rare public appearance, Bryan Konefsky will share
highlights of his historic media findings with Albuquerque and the
world!! You will be shocked and amazed by cinema produced for less
than $1,000! Marvel at movies that do not feature Tom Cruise or Coca
Cola! Witness film artists who have the audacity to thumb their noses
at Hollywood’s silver screen! Do not miss this program of scandalously
produced short, non-narrative films that do not depend on pyrotechnic
effects or crane shots to tell their stories! An annual international
film & video festival of the un-typical right here in Albuquerque!
Contact Bryan at bry...@unm.edu.
BASEMENT FILMS: A non-profit local arts organization whose mission is
to support artists creating under-represented film & video, provide
alternative cinematic experiences for the public, and facilitate
community awareness and dialogue about experimental & under-
represented cinema. Contact base...@swcp.com or
baseme...@riseup.net .
GUILD CINEMA: Albuquerque's oldest still-running movie theater & its
only single screen independently, locally-owned, year round movie
house showing eclectic cinema (ranging from social/political
documentaries, locally made movies, older repertory cinema,
independent flicks, foreign international cinema to cult & drive in
classics, psychotronic movies, etc. ) 7 days a week.
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