Craig Baldwin — Director (8)
¡O No Coronado! (1992) [Movie] TMDB
¡O No Coronado!
director: Craig Baldwin
Coronado's ill-fated expedition across what is now the American Southwest is examined in a mix of found footage and live-action.
Wild Gunman (1978) [Movie] TMDB
Wild Gunman
director: Craig Baldwin
The mythic nature of cowboy masculinity is deconstructed in this scathing montage of re-contextualized sounds and images culled from advertising, television, arcade game footage and other pop culture iconography.
RocketKitKongoKit (1986) [Movie] TMDB
RocketKitKongoKit
director: Craig Baldwin
This kaleidoscopic, amphetamine-paced tour de force uses a barrage of found-footage images and rapid-fire narration to trace a history of Zaire since its independence in 1960.
Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (1992) [Movie] WikiData IMDb Douban TMDB
Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America
director: Craig Baldwin actor: Maurice Bishop / 吉米·卡特
other title: 灾难99:美国之下的异形怪物
Baldwin’s “pseudo-pseudo-documentary” presents a factual chronicle of US intervention in Latin America in the form of the ultimate far-right conspiracy theory, combining covert action, environmental catastrophe, space aliens, cattle mutilations, killer bees, religious prophecy, doomsday diatribes, and just about every other crackpot theory broadcast through the dentures of the modern paranoiac.
Spectres of the Spectrum (2000) [Movie] Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
Spectres of the Spectrum
director: Craig Baldwin actor: Caroline Koebel
BooBoo, a young telepath, and her father, Yogi, are revolutionaries pitted against the "New Electromagnetic Order". Their story, set in the year 2007 in a blighted Nevada outpost, is interwoven with a history of the development of electromagnetic technologies, from X-rays to atom bombs, from television to the Internet.
Mock Up On Mu (2008) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Mock Up on Mu
director: Craig Baldwin actor: Stoney Burke / Jeri Lynn Cohen
other title: Mock Up on Mu / Mock-Up on Mu
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.
Sonic Outlaws (1995) [Movie] Douban TMDB
Sonic Outlaws
director: Craig Baldwin actor: Lloyd Dunn / Chris Grigg
Within days of the release of Negativland's clever parody of U2 and Casey Kasem, recording industry giant Island Records descended upon the band with a battery of lawyers intent on erasing the piece from the history of rock music. Craig "Tribulation 99" Baldwin follows this and other intellectual property controversies across the contemporary arts scene. Playful and ironic, his cut-and-paste collage-essay surveys the prospects for an "electronic folk culture" in the midst of an increasingly commodified corporate media landscape.