Craig Baldwin in Person "...Craig Baldwin's Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (48 mins, B&W), (an) example of underground agitprop, well described by its maker as 'a pseudo-pseudodocumentary obsessively organized into 99 paranoid rants,' is both a skewed history of United States intervention in Latin America and a satire of conspiracy thinking-as well as an impressive demonstration of the sort of connect-the-dots logic that makes such political or religious world-views possible...In one sense, Tribulation is a Cold-War sci-fi cheapster in the apocalyptic-warning tradition of Invasion U.S.A. and Red Planet Mars. Baldwin calls it 'the hidden history of postwar intervention in Latin America by alien invaders,' and the joke, of course, is on the notion of 'alien'-particularly as the war...is waged successfully in Guatemala, Cuba, Chile, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Granada, and Panama. Rather than stage this comic drama, Baldwin illustrates it with a heady mix of images culled from a variety of newsreels, travelogues, industrial films, TV commercials, Mexican horror flicks, and Hollywood movies shot off the tube. The range of this found footage, as well as the sensibility, mirrors Baldwin's taste as programmer for the Other Cinema in San Francisco." --J. Hoberman, Premiere Baldwin will present selections of source material from his collection, including Journey to Banana Land, produced by the United Fruit Company, and Journey to the Seventh Planet. His RocketKitKongoKit (1986, 30 mins, Color) will also be shown. "This kaleidoscope, amphetamine-paced tour de force trace(s) a history of Zaire since its independence in 1960. The CIA, German munitions manufacturers, and American popular culture are all indicted in this comic critique of neo-colonialism." --C.B.