Mock Up on Mu (2008)
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.
Director: Craig Baldwin
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Damon Packard as L. Ron Hubbard |
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Michelle Silva as Agent C/Marjorie Cameron |
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Kalman Spelletich as Richard Carlson/Jack Parsons |
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Stoney Burke as Lockheed Martin |
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Jeri Lynn Cohen as Marjorie Cameron (Voice) |
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Ed Holmes as Jack Parsons (Voice) |
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David M. Cox as Aleister Crowley (Voice) |
| Directing | Craig Baldwin | Director |
| Writing | Craig Baldwin | Writer |
| Camera | Bill Daniel | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Daniel Gorrell | Director of Photography |
| Camera | James T. Hong | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Bill Daniel | Editor |
| Editing | Sylvia Schedelbauer | Editor |
