Craig Baldwin

A fascinating rap on the 20th Century movement called Culture Jamming. Pranksters and subversive artists are causing a bit of brand damage to corporate mindshare. Jammers, cultural commentators, a billboard advertiser and a constitutional lawyer take us on a wild roller coaster ride through the back streets of our mental environment. Stopping over in San Francisco, New York's Times Square, and Toronto, we catch the jamming in action with Batman-inspired Jack Napier of the Billboard Liberation Front, Disney arch-enemy Reverend Billy from the Church of Stop Shopping and Media Tigress Carly Stasko.

Jamie Foxx presents the inspiring true story of high school band leader Conrad O. Johnson, who transformed his ragtag jazz band students into a legendary funk powerhouse that took the nation by storm.

An innocent man walks through San Francisco clueless to the fact that the Blue Angels are in town practicing their air show. After several encounters with the city's more colorful characters, our hero snaps and runs amok, seeking shelter from the unknown terror above. The movies are just around the corner! Or in our hero's case, he's on their corner.

A collaged conversation around the ruins of the Sutro Baths, a massive San Francisco bathing complex turned to dust inside of a century. The site of the baths is the nexus, but the conversation wanders.

Kier-La Janisse's documentary about the importance of advertisement for small theaters.

A meditation on the syncretic nature of art and culture in the 21st century, superimposing the of internal world Baldwin's subterranean film lab with a group of Mayan dancers during the Dia de los Muertos procession.

A pretentious underground filmmaker struggles with his masterpiece while a scuzzy punkoid chick tries to keep her band from fading into obscurity.

"Spacedisco One" is a sequel to both "Logan's Run" and "1984" at the same time with Orwell's Winston Smith running into the daughters of Logan 5 and Francis 7 as they're busy running about a park firing off laser beams at one another. It's not until they meet that Winston realizes they're actually all fictional characters in a movie. When not discussing "Battlestar Galactica" with Stargirl 7 and Francis 8, Winston makes frequent visits to the Ministry of Truth - Universal CityWalk.

A music-filled tour of Christmas good cheer overtakes this gastronomically oriented excursion through the winter season of discontent and yuletime yearnings craving ignition.

A short film about Artists' Television Access.

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.

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.

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.

In post-apocalyptic 2007 where a government cover-up disseminates via mass media and the history of electromagnetic technologies, from X-rays to the Internet, telepath Boo Boo travels through the history of TV to fight against a corporate-controlled 'New Electromagnetic Order'.

In post-apocalyptic 2007 where a government cover-up disseminates via mass media and the history of electromagnetic technologies, from X-rays to the Internet, telepath Boo Boo travels through the history of TV to fight against a corporate-controlled 'New Electromagnetic Order'.

In post-apocalyptic 2007 where a government cover-up disseminates via mass media and the history of electromagnetic technologies, from X-rays to the Internet, telepath Boo Boo travels through the history of TV to fight against a corporate-controlled 'New Electromagnetic Order'.

Baldwin’s “pseudo-pseudo-documentary” presents a factual chronicle of US intervention in Latin America in the form of the ultimate 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.

Armed with S8 camera and sound-person, Craig Baldwin runs both recording devices continuously through single-take raids on a series of SF Market St. grindhouse theaters. Rushing past box offices and through front lobbies, he captures the chance scenes and sounds on screen at the time, then flees out the rear exit doors to reunite with the reality of the street.

A collection of films from an eclectic array of contributors commissioned to raise funds for the Bristol independent cinema The Cube.

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.

A compilation disc in two parts. The first is a collection of 70s television ads called "What The 70s Really Looked Like", curated by Matt McCormick and Morgan Currie. The second part is called "70s Remix" (curated by Craig Baldwin and Noel Lawrence) which features a selection of art films that all make interventions on found footage from the 70s. These films include Matt McCormick's "The Vyrotonin Decision", Thad Povey's "Thine Inward-Looking Eyes", Tony Gault's "Not Too Much Remember", Damon Packard's "Toast 'ems", People Like Us's "We Edit Life" and Animal Charm's "Mark Roth".

A non-narrative film of science-related found footage.

Coronado's ill-fated expedition across what is now the American Southwest is examined in a mix of found footage and live-action.

Coronado's ill-fated expedition across what is now the American Southwest is examined in a mix of found footage and live-action.

An exploded view of a ballistic issue, Bulletin is a 6-minute mish-mash-up of a mid-’60s media-archeological marvel.

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.

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.