Anarchivist and cine-magician Craig Baldwin confirms that he will have “a magic film or two..and maybe a trick” to show me when I visit San Francisco (video by Carl Diehl)
[click to start /stop video above] Craig pulls this old kinescope film from his archive. The magician is unknown but his digital dexterity and peppy patter are reminiscent of the trix and chatter shared in Dorny's books.
That magicians collect “outs,” reminds me of my experiences puzzling the permutations at the Experimental Television Center, with Nat Hawks
(documentation: Zach Lischer-Katz / Edit: Carl Diehl)
Using the mind-bending matrix board at the Experimental Television Center, any device can connect to any other. Audiovisual epiphanies abound, coalesce, and transform in a patch programmable process of riddle and revelation.(photo by Blair Neal)
[click to start /stop video above] My mother, Margrit Diehl, entertains with culinary gusto, warranting comparisons with Howard Thurston's spectacles of magic on stage. Here, she pulls back the curtain and shares recipes from her half-century of hosting dinner parties. (video by Carl Diehl)
A glimpse into Craig Baldwin's cavernous collection of 16mm films in the basement of ATA. Like the magician Dorny, one of Craig's side hustles involves illusion repair. Craig doesn’t prescribe particular solutions but advocates for “opening up a space of ideas” through film collage.(photo by Carl Diehl)