Craig Baldwin (born 1952) is an American experimental filmmaker. He uses пїЅfoundпїЅ footage from the fringes of popular consciousness as well as images from the mass media to undermine and transform the traditional documentary, infusing it with the energy of high-speed montage and a provocative commentary that targets subjects from intellectual property rights to rampant consumerism.
BaldwinпїЅs 1999 film, Spectres of the Spectrum, is a science fiction allegory which tells the story of a young woman with telepathic powers, who travels back in time to save the world from an electro-magnetic pulse. The film takes a cautionary stance against the media outlets in charge of creating and perpetuating the popular mainstream, and in doing so, follows the trajectory, through collage, of media from its beginnings to the present. Montage of fact and fiction.
Spectres of the Spectrum can't be described in words, it has to be seen on the screen. This film is comprised of original material, stock footage and public domain film clips to give the history of electric media and how it will change the future of life on Earth forever.



Nikola Tesla, Philo T. Farnsworth, and Edwin Armstrong are a handful of inventors who have been forgotten or overshadowed by fabricated tales of greatness about innovators such as Thomas Edison, David Sarnoff or Alexander Graham Bell. The battle of "the little guy versus the corporation." In essence, SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM can be viewed as a much-needed documentary about broadcast history.

Along with presenting an revisionist history about the pioneers of spectral exploration, Baldwin's work serves as a critique of the Internet, Bill Gates, the history of military experiments in the Van Allen Belts, the control of electronic manufacturing, telecommunication networks, the FCC, and Big Media. Asks the question "Who owns the air waves"? "What a great media mash-up"!

"It's understanding the Earth as a magnet and it's a critique of military-industrial incursion into the electronic sphere."

Warning some minor audio dropouts. Old tape,remember tape? I'm your father Luke.