interview with filmmaker Craig Baldwin

"Here's the deal. I'm an archivist. I have these films and I am interested in these issues which have to do with these alternative histories, right? So the thing is, I don't want to make just an escapist film. For that matter, I don't want to make just a formal film, as a lot of people in my world do - I'm talking about avant-garde filmmakers. And I don't disavow them. I won't. But I'm not interested in doing that. I'm interested in making films of ideas, and to make them using the visual language of cinema. That's my strength. Not research or writing, though I can do a little writing and I can do a little research. What I can do is collage, and I have the archive..."