January 15, 2025
CRAIG BALDWIN, my dear friend, the genius found footage filmmaker, legendary impresario, creator and host of Other Cinema in San Francisco’s Mission District, film archivist, teacher, distributor and booster of all things at the margins of culture, is currently experiencing serious health challenges in his life!!
Since August 2024, Craig has been battling throat cancer. For the last four months, he has been in and out of hospitals and skilled nursing facilities being treated for the cancer and the challenging secondary effects from the radiation and chemotherapy. Needless to say, this has been physically devastating and Craig’s road to recovery is going to be long and slow. Before he can return home to his studio/archive and cinema, there will need to be therapies which will facilitate him being able to eat and walk again. This has been a huge financial blow for Craig.
Please contribute to our GoFundMe Campaign here: https://gofund.me/6156993d
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We are sure that many of you recognize Craig as an exemplary citizen of the underground, experimental film and art community. For over 40 years, his generosity and selfless support for the margins of Cinema have guided and inspired our community. Many of you have personally experienced the “Baldwin Film Phenomenon” —from having seen his brilliant films, attended his mind-bending lectures on found cinema, taken classes or been mentored by him. Others have purchased archival film from him, spending hours in his underground studio winding through miles of 16mm film for your own projects. Perhaps you, like 1000s of others, have attended programs from his weekly film series or listened to him hold forth about art and cinema in a late night bar. We all know what a force of nature Craig is and how important it is that we return the support so he can recover his health and resume his work as an artist and his service to the community.