Director: Craig Baldwin

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

Director: Aryan Kaganof

Starring: Leigh Graves, Deja Bernhardt, Samantha Rocca, Patricia Boyer, Aryan Kaganof, Julius Moeletsi

Year: 2008

Runtime: unknown (feature length)

Synopsis: Christmas Eve in Johannesburg. A classic white Valiant cruises the deserted streets of the vast metropolis. Inside the car, Sugar Man, a pimp with principles, shepherds his flock of working girls from client to client. The three women are foreigners — “nobody was born in Joburg” — come to the anonymous city to get their share of the pie.

As the film unfolds we find out who these tough women are, why they’re working on Christmas Eve, and what Sugar Man’s niche market is.

The trade in sex wreaks emotional havoc on all players, and Sugar Man must face his deepest fears.

The gritty resolution of this contemporary urban Christmas Story is feel good cinema for the urban realist. (from official site)

DVD: None

Official Website: SMS Sugar Man official site

Reviews: Helge.com (Helge Janssen)

Video: None

Director: Dionysos Andronis, Ca Ca Ca

Starring: Peter Whitehead, Aryan Kaganof

Year: 2008

Runtime: 52 mins.

Synopsis: During the world Premiere of Aryan Kaganof’s feature film SMS Sugar Man in London, Peter Whitehead was there. Together, they began a long conversation about art, cinema and terrorism.

DVD: None

Official Website: None

Reviews: Bad Lit (Mike Everleth)

Video: None