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Mock Up On Mu

Mock Up on Mu

Starring: Damon Packard, Michelle Silva, Kalman Spelletich, Stoney Burke, Jeri Lynn Cohen

Year: 2008

Runtime: 110 mins.

Synopsis: 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”). (from Other Cinema)

DVD: Other Cinema

Official Website: Other Cinema

Reviews: Bad Lit (Mike Everleth)
Variety (Dennis Harvey)
Village Voice (J. Hoberman)
New York Times (Manohla Dargis)

Video: Trailer

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