Roswell Bill Brown, 1994

Bill Brown s a 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 coverup. to take the event seriously. He wonders what the craft was doing in Roswell of all places, speculating that it was piloted by a star through the cosmos who got lost and lost But Brown also sees his subject playfully, as if through a child s eyes objects suggest others, nothing has a stable The fisheye 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 hand, as an animated drawing of a spaceship scoots across the paper, suggesting a connection between UFO fantasies and the magical possibilities of Fred Camper, Chicago Reader