Film Alien Craig Baldwin

Cut and paste film phreak Craig Baldwin returns to Austin with two shows. Alien Anomalies Outta Other Cinema plays at 8pm and is a "best of the Bay Area show" featuring works by Greta Snider, J.X. Williams, Thad Povey, Martha Colburn, Scratch Film Junkies, and others. Screening at 10pm is Baldwin's fantastic feature Spectres of the Spectrum ñ a conspiracy theorist’s history of electronic media, presented via video clips ranging from Fifties TV to Nineties cable newscasts. It plays like some lost Lone Gunmen episode of The X-Files scripted by Firesign Theatre ñ quirky, quip-filled, and heavy on the suspicion. What really distinguishes it, however, is Baldwin’s dazzling command of video artifacts, artfully chosen and masterfully edited into a continually compelling collage.