Mock Up on Mu

Using found footage reclaiming popular 1950s to 1970s science-fiction soundtracks intermixed with newly filmed scenes; Craig Baldwin (a student of beatnik Bruce Conner) retraces the almost-true story of the post-war counter-culture in California. Through the peregrinations of Jack Parsons - brilliant scientist specializing in explosives and disciple of Aleister Crowley, L. Ron Hubbard – founder of the church of Scientology, and Marjorie Cameron - poet and occult-science enthusiast most known for her role in Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954) by Kenneth Anger, Craig Baldwin’s “pulp” approach produces a political satire as an homage to old-fashioned serials caricaturing the spiritual and political considerations of their protagonists.