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Spectres of the Spectrum

SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM
Craig Baldwin, 1999, 93', 16mm
SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM is a feature-length 16mm film utilizing old 'kinescopes' to create an eerie, haunted "media-archaeology" zone for a sci-fi time-travel tale, wherein live-action actors search for a hidden electromagnetic secret to save the planet from a futuristic war-machine, inspired by HAARP, the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research.

The year is 2007. Life in the desert outside Las Vegas is desolate. Uncontrolled technology is destroying the universe. Radio, TV, radars, x-rays, microwaves and tens of other plagues are corrupting our collective consciousness. A supranational Big Brother called NEO (New Electromagnetic Order) is preparing for the final solution, The Pulsethat will wipe out all life from Earth. Physicists Yogi (father) and BooBoo (daughter) are humanity's only hope. They discover that an episode of a 1957 Science in Action TV series may contain a coded message that could be used to prevent the destruction. BooBoo uses the time machine she's invented to travel through the 20th century. During the trip, she gets an overdose of greed, decadence, military speculation and political power games of multinational corporations.
 
Trying to describe the plot of Craig Baldwin's latest movie is like trying to photograph lightning. Spectres of the Spectrum is like a massive surge of paranoid evidence from the past century.