Mock Up on Mu

Name: Mock Up on Mu
Director: Craig Baldwin
Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction
Released: 2008-01-14
Duration: 1 h 54 min
Rating: 5.8
Cast: Damon Packard, Michelle Silva, Kalman Spelletich, Stoney Burke, Jeri Lynn Cohen

Directed by Craig Baldwin

Comedy

Science Fiction

20081h 54m5.8

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.