If you like Next to Heaven, Rob Parrish’s found-footage noir web series that we talked about a couple of weeks ago on FilmCouch, chances are good that you’d probably get a kick out of Craig Baldwin. He’s probably best known for his 1995 film, Sonic Outlaws, an documentary which merged form and content by using montages rife with pop culture appropriations to tell the story of Negativland, who were essentially the first band to cause an internationally-publicized legal incident by creating a mash-up. All of the issues that intersect in Sonic Outlaws–piracy, fair use, underground artists vs. corporate interests–are totally current today, and yet Sonic Outlaws documents a world that’s entirely pre-digital.

There are tons of clips from the film on Google Video, or you can buy a DVD directly from Baldwin’s DVD label, Other Cinema Digital.

Or, if you’re in San Francisco, you can also show up tomorrow night at Artists’ Television Access,  where Baldwin’s weekly Other Cinema series will include a”sneak preview” of his latest film, Mu. According to Independent Exposure, the still-unfinished film can be described as “a sci-fi espionage compilation narrative that traces the rise and convergence of New Age religous cults, the military/aerospace industrial complex, and modern-day myths from Disney to certain sci-fi overlords.” If that didn’t sound cool enough, there are at least five other titles on tomorrow night’s program, including a film about Nikola Tesla directed by Buffalo ‘66 and Marie Antoinette cinematographer Lance Accord. More info at the Other Cinema site.

[Via Bad Lit]