Saturday, September 6, 2014, 12:00 am, $7-10
This September Artists’ Television Access celebrates its 30th anniversary. This 30-hour marathon screening continues ATA’s tradition of extreme performance and endurance art. The screening begins at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, September 5th, with a brief intermission at 4:00 a.m., and ends at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 6th. The program draws from ATA’s long history and beyond of independent, underground, experimental film and video, with work by ATA’s global network of friends, collaborators, and artists. Pancakes at 6:00 a.m., plus free coffee refills!
Program VI: Craig Baldwin’s Mock Up On Mu
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”). 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. Starring Damon Packard, Michelle Silva, Kal Spelletich, and Stoney Burke. Preceded by Gilbert Guerrero’s hand-edited Super-8 film, dubbed over with a script which was written only after the film was shot! Starring Lara Shalson and Gary Grossman.
You Sold This to Me in a Dream, Gilbert Guerrero, 2004, 11:00
Mock Up On Mu, Craig Baldwin, 2009, 1:50:00
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ATA’s 30th Anniversary 30-Hour Marathon
All shows are $7-10 at the door. Get a Marathon Pass for only $30 and stay for all 15 shows!
Friday, September 5, 2014, Doors open at 12:30pm
1:00 pm – Opening Program: Favorites from the Archive
3:00 pm – Program II: Even More Favorites from the Archive
5:30 pm – Program III: ATA Lives!
8:00 pm – Program IV: Marshall Weber’s “Flatlands”
10:00 pm – Program V: MOBILE MINIS, Curated by Molly Hankwitz
Saturday, September 6, 2014
12:00 am – Program VI: Craig Baldwin’s “Mock Up On Mu”
2:00 am – Program VII: Lutz Dammbeck’s “The Net”
4:00 am – Brief Intermission
4:05 am – Program VIII: Things We Don’t Know That We Don’t Know
6:00 am – Program IX: Pancakes + Damon Packard’s “Reflections of Evil”
8:00 am – Program X: Negativland’s Our Favorite Things
10:00 am – Program XI: Myths of Thee Underground
11:00 am – Program XII: The Galapagos Affair, curated by Anastasia Pahules
1:00 pm – Program XIII: Curious Collage, curated by Kathleen Quillian
3:00 pm – Program XIV: Roswell + Confessions of a Sociopath + Beneath the Skin, curated by Linda Scobie
5:00 pm – Program XV: Performance/Video, curated by Karla Milosevich
7:00 pm – Show ends!