Mock Up on Mu by Craig Baldwin Response

Craig Baldwin's Mock Up on Mu was much more interesting than I thought it was going to be. Although I had little to no knowledge about the artist or the work being shown, I had the idea that the dialogue stuffed, feature film length, experimental movie was going to get old after a while but that didn't seem to happen. The visuals from the older films remained extremely interesting and grasped the audience fairly well throughout the entire movie, it was extremely helpful that these clips were intertwined with modern day footage that the artist made himself. This kept the story and the ridiculousness of the film alive and current while also allowing the audience to breathe from the overflow of older, unconnected film footage. The overall concept of the story was hilarious and really well laid out, and the intricacy of the dialogue that remained heavily consistent over the length of the film kept the audience engaged by using almost poetically laid out sentences that sometimes went on for much longer than the average line of dialogue. The introduction that Professor Morris gave before the movie started began to make much more sense as the project continued on. The reuse of materials in the daily life of the artist is a large part of his personality and this can very easily be seen in the film 'Mock Up on Mu'. A project that reuses old film clips edited together along with newly made footage to make up a whole new story line.