Yesterday, I was looking for an example of a "found footage" film to use as an example in class for the students' final After Effects project. Lee, our invaluable custodian of the department video library, pointed me to Craig Baldwin's found footage masterpiece, Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America. I think I will only show the first few minutes in class - I'll also screen Bruce Conner's A Movie - but, dang, this movie is crazy stupid awesome. Unfortunately, it's unavailable on DVD, which is a total bummer, since I don't have a TV to play VHS tapes on.
Tribulation 99 led me to do some digging around on Baldwin, and I realized he directed Sonic Outlaws, a flick about Negativland's tussle with U2. I found it for fee download at Transmission Films. Transmission Films seems like a great idea, providing an alternative distribution system for experimental and independent films, but it strikes me as rather ironic the site would offer a movie about contesting copyright law in a DRM'ed Windows Media format.
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