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In the year 2007, a telepathic woman Boo Boo and her father Yogi live in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. The New Electromagnetic Order rules the world, opposed by the TV Tesla resistance movement. Boo Boo, able to withstand the radioactive atmosphere, must go back in time 50 years and trace TV
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to find an encoded secret from her grandmother. Meanwhile, Yogi scans the history of the electromagnetic conflict. After decoding the secret message, Boo Boo flies into the Sun to unleash a chain reaction that weaponizes the Sun's energy.
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magazine, Ken Eisner described it as a "concentrated lightning bolt of fascinating weirdness" but noted that it was relatively inaccessible for mainstream audiences and could become "a coveted item among youthful cognoscenti."
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over three years. The film primarily draws from archival material that Baldwin kept in the basement of his studio space in San Francisco. His collection included hundreds of educational
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was "exhausting and ultimately bewildering… not without a certain visual and conceptual brilliance, or, thankfully, a sense of humor." Jonathan Romney of
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O'Reilly, Finbarr (February 11, 2000). "BooBoo and Yogi fight the power: Experimental film explores theme of media concentration".
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called it "radical pop art, and head-spinningly entertaining storytelling, if you manage to keep up with it." In his review for
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Carley, Christopher (2008). "Talk About a Combustible Mix: An Interview with Craig Baldwin".
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Eisner, Ken (November 29, 1999). "Spectres of the Spectrum".
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Index


Craig Baldwin
Bill Daniel
VIFF
science fiction
collage film
Craig Baldwin
electromagnetic spectrum
found footage
Science in Action
Beth Lisick

Craig Baldwin
Science in Action
Exploratorium
16 mm film
sync sound
Vancouver International Film Festival
New York Film Festival
Whitney Biennial
London Film Festival
Church of Scientology
L. Ron Hubbard
A. O. Scott
The Guardian
Variety


"Spectres of the Spectrum"
Vancouver International Film Festival

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