Roswell

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Brown, Bill, filmmaker.

Canyon Cinema, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roswell Incident, Roswell, N.M., 1947.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (20 min.)

Distribution:

New York, N.Y. Grasshopper Film

Place of Publication:

San Francisco Canyon Cinema 1994

Summary:

"Bill Brown's Roswell ... takes a fanciful, humorous look at the supposed crash of a flying saucer near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947, an 'event' UFO-types cite to this day as evidence of a massive government cover-up. Brown, a recent Harvard graduate who appears in the film and whose voice is heard on the sound track, seems to take the event seriously. He wonders what the craft was doing in Roswell of all places, speculating it was piloted by a 'star boy ... joyriding through the cosmos' who 'got lost and lost control.' But Brown also sees his subject playfully, as if through a child's eyes - objects suggest others, nothing has a stable meaning, flying saucers are fun. The film begins with a Frisbee flying through the air, a metaphor repeated many times. The fish-eye lens used for some landscape shots curves the horizon line, making the sky seem enclosed - navigable, traversable. In the film's strongest image Brown stands facing the camera with a sheaf of papers in his hand, as an animated drawing of a spaceship scoots across the paper, suggesting a connection between UFO fantasies and the magical possibilities of cinema." - Fred Camper, Chicago Reader

Credits:

Bill Brown, filmmaker

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from title screen

OCLC:

1343071978

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license