Craig Baldwin: Plagiarism Saves Time

"The mercurial mind of filmmaker, curator, and ideologue Craig Baldwin swarms with frenzy. Overload and overwhelm have always been part of his oeuvre. Baldwin’s modus operandi—in life, art and action—is to refute blind allegiance to ideological authority, to question beliefs and belief systems, to talk back to media."

That's my favorite introduction to Craig, from The Miami Rail, besides his own description of how he works: "Rather than apply for the grants or get studio funding, just work form where we are, poor people, but taking advantage of the fat of the land, so to speak, taking advantage of the resources that we already have, in other words, trash, a culture of instant obsolescence. I call it 'surfing the wave of obsolescence'."

 As Will Kreith puts it, talking about Baldwin's theater, Artist's Television Access (ATA), "Not only do the seats come from dumpsters, but much of Baldwin's best footage is found in trash cans containing film somebody else threw away."

Since 1995, Craig has made two more films since Sonic Outlaws (full film on Internet Archive), which was commented on by Kreith: Spectres of the Spectrum (1999) and Mock Up on Mu (2008). You can find short descriptions and links to (clips of) these films and his prior works here, and a bit more from UbuWeb.