Collage narrative filmmaker Craig Baldwin arrives for the November 3, 1999 San Francisco screening of his feature film Spectres of the Spectrum at the Castro Theater, caught on video by Peter Hinds. The above video also includes brief clips from the film, one response during a post-screening Q&A session with Baldwin, and Baldwin’s post-screening exit where he runs into a devoted fan on the street.
While the Underground Film Journal doesn’t know the exact release schedule for Spectres of the Spectrum, guessing from the high energy of the crowd and of Baldwin, this does appear to be the hometown premiere of the film. However, it’s most likely the film previously screened outside of San Francisco.
We also wish there was more of Baldwin’s Q&A session included in the video, but the snippet that does appear is an excellent capsulization of how the filmmaker discusses his process.
While the Underground Film Journal doesn’t know the exact release schedule for Spectres of the Spectrum, guessing from the high energy of the crowd and of Baldwin, this does appear to be the hometown premiere of the film. However, it’s most likely the film previously screened outside of San Francisco.
We also wish there was more of Baldwin’s Q&A session included in the video, but the snippet that does appear is an excellent capsulization of how the filmmaker discusses his process.
- 10/30/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The 10th annual Lausanne Underground Film Festival is a truly epic film event with an immense lineup of the strangest, sexiest, most grotesque, oddball and downright freakish movies from all over the world — from modern underground treats to classic cult movies of yesteryear.
The fest officially begins on Oct. 15 with a special live performance by the legendary Diamanda Galas. But the film festivities run from Oct. 17-23, starting with the grand opening of an exhibition and retrospective of the films by Ericka Beckman.
The full film lineup, which is presented below, is a massive mix of underground greatness, but here are some of the highlights:
Gross-Out Flicks:
Chop, dir. Trent Haaga.
The Taint, dir. Drew Bolduc and Dan Nelson.
Calibre 9, dir. Jean-Christian Tassy.
The Bunny Game, dir. Adam Rehmeier
Trippy Movies:
Profane, dir. Usama Alshaibi
The Oregonian, dir. Calvin Lee Reeder
Hellacious Acres: The Case of John Glass, dir.
The fest officially begins on Oct. 15 with a special live performance by the legendary Diamanda Galas. But the film festivities run from Oct. 17-23, starting with the grand opening of an exhibition and retrospective of the films by Ericka Beckman.
The full film lineup, which is presented below, is a massive mix of underground greatness, but here are some of the highlights:
Gross-Out Flicks:
Chop, dir. Trent Haaga.
The Taint, dir. Drew Bolduc and Dan Nelson.
Calibre 9, dir. Jean-Christian Tassy.
The Bunny Game, dir. Adam Rehmeier
Trippy Movies:
Profane, dir. Usama Alshaibi
The Oregonian, dir. Calvin Lee Reeder
Hellacious Acres: The Case of John Glass, dir.
- 10/13/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Ahead of its 55th outing, Alastair Dant goes back to 1995 to work out what first got him hooked on the BFI London film festival
As per much of our second year at Ucl, Phil and I sat cross-legged beneath the Japanese table in our Camden flat, scheming. The table was heated; a luxury that suited our mode of repose. Conversation typically ranged between which half-cocked Britpop band had been lurking in our local or who'd won most games of pool. On this occasion, a more important matter was at hand: the table bore the programme for the 1995 BFI London film festival.
It's not clear where we got it. It could have been a record shop counter or a Soho cafe. What mattered was how neatly this event celebrated student life. It slipped easily into a schedule of late lectures and misspent afternoons. It coaxed us with the promise of world cinema and cheap matinee tickets.
As per much of our second year at Ucl, Phil and I sat cross-legged beneath the Japanese table in our Camden flat, scheming. The table was heated; a luxury that suited our mode of repose. Conversation typically ranged between which half-cocked Britpop band had been lurking in our local or who'd won most games of pool. On this occasion, a more important matter was at hand: the table bore the programme for the 1995 BFI London film festival.
It's not clear where we got it. It could have been a record shop counter or a Soho cafe. What mattered was how neatly this event celebrated student life. It slipped easily into a schedule of late lectures and misspent afternoons. It coaxed us with the promise of world cinema and cheap matinee tickets.
- 10/4/2011
- by Alastair Dant
- The Guardian - Film News
In his underground favorites Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Across America and Spectres Of The Spectrum, filmmaker/collagist Craig Baldwin has combined archival footage, low-budget B-movie recreations, and only somewhat tongue-in-cheek paranoid ramblings into amusing, oddly persuasive alternate histories of the United States. Baldwin’s Mock Up On Mu deals from the same deck. Beginning on Earth’s moon in the year 2019, Mock Up On Mu looks back at nearly a century of Americana—or, more specifically, Californiana—through intertwined, lightly fictionalized versions of the lives of demagogic pulp author L. Ron Hubbard, notorious occultist Aleister Crowley, New Age guru ...
- 1/13/2010
- avclub.com
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