Underground San Francisco filmmaker Craig Baldwin is a pioneering found footage artist working in the field of collage and appropriated imagery. Using scenes from mass media, pop culture, and educational films he creates fantastic satirical gems which break down the barrier of traditional cinema.

SONIC OUTLAWS
DIR. CRAIG BALDWIN | 1995 | USA | 87 MIN
Introduced by Craig Baldwin

Sonic Outlaws explores the artist culture of appropriating images, culture jamming and defying copyright. Within days after the release of Bay Area recording and performance group Negativland's clever parody of U2 and Casey Kasem, recording industry giant Island Records descended upon the band with a battery of lawyers intent on erasing the piece from the history of rock music. Baldwin follows this and other intellectual property controversies across the contemporary arts scene. Playful and ironic, his cut-and-paste collage-essay surveys the prospects for an "electronic folk culture" in the midst of an increasingly commodified corporate media landscape.

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