Spectres of the Spectrum

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It is Earth in the year of our Lord 2007. Yogi and Boo-Boo, a father and daughter who are telepathically connected, work from different parts of a devastated landscape in order to stop a scheme by the corporate-governmental New Magnetic Order to bulk erase the brain content of every human being. To do this, they must travel back in time and trace the television broadcasts of a 1950's show entitled Science in Action. Therein lies the secret to prevent the fall of electronic telecommunications technology into the hands of the military-industrial complex. Science fiction...or science fact?? A little bit of both, actually, in this deliriously bizarre cautionary tale by the Bay Area's own Craig Baldwin (Sonic Outlaws, Cinequest '98). Our culture's blind love affair with technology is but one of the many targets that Baldwin draws into razor sharp focus. We are treated to an epic tour of the effects of unfettered technological development through a collection of sights and sounds that are, literally, beyond description. Baldwin's collage technique fills the screen with a barrage of images, both found and created, then carefully manipulated for your viewing pleasure. He pushes the very limit of the audience's sensory capacity to create an experience that is as delightful as it is disturbing. --Ken Karn