TRIBULATION 99: Alien Anomalies Under America

Three transfixing wonders of barrage-collage found footage filmmaking guide us down a hypnotic trip through fictitious(?) alternative histories & over-stimulating maximalist psychedelia, culminating with Craig Baldwin's influentially renowned, batshit brilliant end times gonzo extravaganza.

Program

MERCY
Abigail Child | 1989 | USA | 10 minutes

'Mercy' is encyclopedic ephemera, exploring public visions of technological and romantic invention, dissecting the game mass media plays with our private perceptions. (A.C.)

THE EVIL SURPRISE
François Miron | 1994 | Canada | 16 minutes

A kinetic collage preoccupied with social conditioning and absurdity, a mind bending psychedelic optical printing film, a brain probe and a short journey out of your mind, 'The Evil Surprise' is inside your head. (F.M.)

TRIBULATION 99: ALIEN ANOMALIES UNDER AMERICA
Craig Baldwin | 1991 | USA | 48 minutes

Every imaginable scrap of found footage, re-filmed TV and industrial sound is obsessively organized into 99 paranoid rants, together constituting a psychotronic pseudo-pseudo-documentary that desperately details the hidden history of alien intervention in Latin America. (C.B.)

Total Runtime:
74 minutes + intermission

This program is supported in part by the London Arts Council through the City of London’s Community Arts Investment Program.