1. Craig Baldwin was born on 1952 and is an American experimental filmmaker.
14 Facts About Craig Baldwin
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Craig Baldwin uses found footage from the fringes of popular consciousness as well as images from the mass media to undermine and transform the traditional documentary, infusing it with the energy of high-speed montage and a provocative commentary that targets subjects from intellectual property rights to rampant consumerism.
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Craig Baldwin grew up the youngest child in a middle-class family in Carmichael.
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Craig Baldwin went to underground film screenings and started filming with a Super 8 camera.
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Craig Baldwin made his Super 8 film Stolen Movie in 1976 by running into movie theaters and filming the screen.
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Craig Baldwin made his next short film, Flick Skin, while working at porn theaters.
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Craig Baldwin made his 1978 film Wild Gunman, a critical look at the figure of the Marlboro Man, using clips from the 1974 Nintendo arcade game of the same name, as well as B-movies and advertisements obtained from grindhouses.
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In 1984, Craig Baldwin moved to San Francisco's Mission District and contributed to the founding of Artists' Television Access In 1987, he started his long-running Other Cinema series at the space.
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Craig Baldwin drew from this collection for his 1986 film RocketKitKongoKit, which narrates the CIA's role in establishing Mobutu Sese Seko's military dictatorship in Zaire and the history of rocket testing there by a German weapons manufacturer.
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An early proponent of culture jamming, Craig Baldwin has altered billboards with political messages and has documented the work of the Billboard Liberation Front through the 1990s.
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Craig Baldwin's 1999 film Spectres of the Spectrum is a science fiction allegory that tells the story of a young woman with telepathic powers who travels back in time to save the world from an electro-magnetic pulse.
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In 2000 Craig Baldwin received the Moving Image Creative Capital Award.
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Craig Baldwin established Other Cinema Digital in 2003 to provide distribution for films by independent, underground, and experimental filmmakers.
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In 2008, Baldwin created Mock Up on Mu, a fictional story based heavily on real facts of the lives of L Ron Hubbard, Marjorie Cameron, Aleister Crowley, and Jack Parsons.