Film Festival 09 - Mock Up On Mu
Mock Up on Mu
USA 2008, 114m
Director: Craig Baldwin
Festivals: San Francisco, New York, Vancouver 2008; Rotterdam
2009
"From the wonderfully warped mind of Craig Baldwin [Tribulation 99,
Sonic Outlaws] comes this delirious new film, a (mostly) true
tale of the occult goings-on at the heart of the American space
race. Mixing newly shot footage with an amazing array of archival
clips foraged from schlocky pulp serials, industrial films and
genre gems, Baldwin has created a playful 'collage-narrative' that
exposes the all-too-real, all-too-weird ties between California's
post-war beatnik, alternative religion sub-cultures and outer space
travel. At the heart of it all we find such real life players as
jet rocket propulsion pioneer and Aleister Crowley devotee Jack
Parsons, his wife Marjorie Cameron (bohemian artist and Kenneth
Anger actress), and none other than L. Ron Hubbard." - Anthology
Film Archives. "[N]o one chops and cuts the viscera of our schizoid
culture with quite the glee and gusto of Baldwin." - Peter Culley,
Vancouver Film Festival
