SAT. 2/20: DAMON PACKARD's NAUSICAA+ MU DVD LAUNCH
Danger, Danger! In the flesh, all of it, the legendary Damon Packard descends upon our Bay Area idyll with a shopping cart full of both old and new works! The Bay Area premiere of his half-hour Nausicaa: Tales of the Valley of the Wind composes an experimental love-letter to the spiritual world of Hayao Miyazaki, refiguring the anime into lush live-action scenes with period costumes, horses, swordplay, and, er...puppets. PLUS a choice selection of his other rarely-seen shorts, Including Blade Runner II and Roller Boogie III. Damon will additionally christen (with complimentary champagne for all!) the launch of the DVD edition of his tour-de-force performance in Craig Baldwin's Mock Up on Mu, unspooling his favorite chapter and a behind-the-scenes glimpse that's part of the disc. Co-star Kal Spelletich is also on hand with his dynamic dueling robot, whilst keyboardist Doug Katelus works between the gallery's kinetic-art fracas and the big-screen 16mm imagery of another Japanese folk-meme, Gamera, the Flying Turtle. *$6.66.

AVAILABLE NOW:
CRAIG BALDWIN's
MOCK UP ON MU
1:50:00

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.


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