Mock Up on Mu (2008)

A radical hybrid of spy scifi Western and even horror genres Craig Baldwins Mock Up On Mu cobbles together a featurelength collagenarrative based on mostly true stories of Californias postWar subcultures of rocket pioneers alternative religions and Beat lifestyles Pulpserial snippets industrialfilm imagery and B and Z fiction clips are intercut with newly shot liveaction material powering a playful allegorical trajectory through the nowmythic occult matrix of Jack Parsons Crowleyite founder of the Jet Propulsion Lab LRon Hubbard scifi author turned cultleader 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 takeover of spiritual fulfillment and leisuretime