Mock Up on Mu

Mock Up on Mu

2008 · 114 min · ★ 5.8 · Comedy, Science Fiction

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.

Directed by Craig Baldwin · Written by Craig Baldwin

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Damon Packard L. Ron Hubbard
Michelle Silva Agent C/Marjorie Cameron
Kalman Spelletich Richard Carlson/Jack Parsons
Stoney Burke Lockheed Martin
Jeri Lynn Cohen Marjorie Cameron (Voice)
Ed Holmes Jack Parsons (Voice)
David M. Cox Aleister Crowley (Voice)

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