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Wednesday,
May 6 at 7pm
Mock
Up on Mu
dir.
Craig Baldwin, US, 2008, 16mm, 110 mins, b/w and color
Director
Craig Baldwin in person
A
radical hybrid of spy, sci-fi, Western, and even horror genres,
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 ([Aleister]
Crowleyite founder of the Jet Propulsion Lab), L Ron Hubbard
(sci-fi author turned Scientology 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.
"...
Mock Up on Mu is a modern American myth fashioned
from all manner of cultural detritus." J Hoberman, The
Village Voice
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