USA,
1991, 49 min
Shown in 1992
CREDITS
- dir
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Craig Baldwin
- scr
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Craig Baldwin
- editor
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Craig Baldwin
- source
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Craig Baldwin
- gga award
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Best of Category, Film & Video: New Visions
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COMMENTS
Craig Baldwin in person.
OTHER
Lurid, dense, thought-provoking, not to mention hilarious, Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America is, in creator Craig Baldwin’s words, “a pseudo pseudo-documentary, obsessively organized into 99 paranoid rants, parlaying every imaginable scrap of ‘found’ footage, refilmed TV and industrial sound into a revisionist history of alien intervention in Latin America.” From the momentum-gathering melange of graphs, cartoons, travelogues and every kind of movie from B to Z, we learn that in 1000 A.D., with the explosion of the planet Quetzacoatl, its inhabitants migrated to Earth via flying saucers, taking up residence at the center of our planet (which, unbeknownst to most earthlings, is hollow). Cut to the late 1940s, when their sanctuary is agitated by underground atomic tests, and the aliens now vow the destruction of the United States via el sur—using all manner of futuristic weaponry, as well as humanoid alien automatons as provocateurs.
FACTOID #85
In 1996, Harvey Keitel was the first recipient of the Peter J. Owens Award, honoring “brilliance, independence and honesty” in acting. Honest he was. During the clip show at his tribute Keitel, unhappy with one of the clips, began waving his arms and shouting until the screen went black. The screen lit up with a new clip and the tribute continued.
