Mock Up on Mu

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 14, 2008

Original language

English

Cast

Michelle Silva,Jeri Lynn Cohen,Stoney Burke,David M. Cox,Kalman Spelletich,Ed Holmes,Damon Packard

Director

Craig Baldwin

Writer

Craig Baldwin

Cinematography

James T. Hong,Daniel Gorrell,Bill Daniel

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt1263692