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Craig Baldwin
Tribulation 99, Mock Up on Mu

Craig Baldwin (born 1952) is an American

intellectual property rights to rampant consumerism
.

Early life

Craig Baldwin was born in

Super 8 camera.[2][3]

Baldwin attended college at

University of California at Santa Barbara.[2]

Career

Early activities (1976–1990)

Baldwin made his Super 8 film Stolen Movie in 1976 by running into movie theaters and filming the screen. He made his next short film, Flick Skin, while working at porn theaters. Baldwin made his 1978 film Wild Gunman, a critical look at the figure of the Marlboro Man, using clips from the 1974 Nintendo arcade game of the same name, as well as B-movies and advertisements obtained from grindhouses.[2][4]

In 1984, Baldwin moved to

San Francisco's Mission District and contributed to the founding of Artists' Television Access[5][6] In 1987, he started his long-running Other Cinema series at the space.[7] In 1986, Baldwin earned an M.A. from San Francisco State University.[1] It was there that he first became interested in collage film during his studies with Bruce Conner.[2]

It was during this period that Baldwin started amassing a large collection of film works, many of which were discarded by institutions moving over to

industrial films, or science fiction films. Like many of Baldwin's later works, RocketKitKongoKit used documentary techniques not to present an authoritative history but to counter official histories by presenting alternative histories and blurring the boundaries between them.[2][9]

An early proponent of culture jamming, Baldwin has altered billboards with political messages and has documented the work of the Billboard Liberation Front through the 1990s.[10]

Mid-career work (1991–2000)

Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (1991) is an account of CIA intervention in developing countries (as well as a critique of paranoid conspiracy theories) presented in the form of a pseudo-documentary that recounts the history of an alien occupation of Latin America in 99 brief ramblings.[11] J. Hoberman put Tribulation 99 as #3 on his list of the ten best films 1991–2000.[12]

Baldwin's ¡O No Coronado! (1992) is a retelling of the invasion of the American southwest by

copyright reform.[2]

Baldwin's 1999 film Spectres of the Spectrum is a science fiction allegory that tells the story of a young woman with telepathic powers who travels back in time to save the world from an electro-magnetic pulse. The film takes a cautionary stance against the media outlets in charge of creating and perpetuating the popular mainstream, and in doing so, follows the trajectory, through collage, of media from its beginnings to the present. In 2000 Baldwin received the Moving Image Creative Capital Award.[13]

Later work (2001–present)

Baldwin in 2012

Baldwin established Other Cinema Digital in 2003 to provide distribution for films by independent, underground, and experimental filmmakers. In 2005 the label partnered with

Facets Video to distribute a series of works on DVD.[14]

In 2008, Baldwin created

Jack Parsons
. Mostly assembled from found footage, Mock Up on Mu includes more original live-action footage than in earlier projects.

Baldwin has taught at UC Davis and

UC Berkeley.[6] Craig Baldwin: Avant to Live!, a 2023 book published by San Francisco Cinematheque and INCITE, surveys his work and career.[15]

Filmography

References

  1. ^ a b c "Craig Baldwin: Experimental Filmmaker - FoundSF". www.foundsf.org. Retrieved 2024-01-24.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Maloney, Tim (2006). "Craig Baldwin". Senses of Cinema. Retrieved April 20, 2011.
  3. Polta, Steve (September 30, 2007). "Masochism of the Margins: An Interview with Craig Baldwin"
    . Incite!. Retrieved October 13, 2018.
  4. S2CID 154130923
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  5. Cineaste
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  6. ^ a b Ryce, Walter (June 30, 2013). Lucia, Cynthia; Grundmann, Roy; Simon, Art (eds.). "Art Filmmaker Craig Baldwin's CSUMB Summer Arts Interview". Monterey County Weekly. Retrieved October 13, 2018.
  7. ISBN 978-1-118-47512-6
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  8. ^ Jones, J.R. (June 7, 2018). "Chicago Underground Film Festival: Tribulation 99". Chicago Reader. Retrieved October 13, 2018.
  9. ^ Knipfel, Jim (June 29, 2017). "Chomsky Does Not Make Movies: an Interview with Filmmaker Craig Baldwin". The Believer. Retrieved October 13, 2018.
  10. ISBN 978-0-8223-4822-1
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  11. ISBN 9027234450
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  12. ^ 12/25/18[dead link]
  13. ^ "Spectres of the Spectrum". Creative Capital. Retrieved October 13, 2018.
  14. ^ Gruenwedel, Erik (January 2, 2005). "Facets Makes Other Cinema Deal". Video Store Magazine. p. 8.
  15. ^ Fox, Michael (May 26, 2023). "'Avant to Live' Is a Monument to Beloved Mission Filmmaker Craig Baldwin". KQED Inc. Retrieved November 15, 2023.

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