Ce post et le suivant placés ici à défaut d'avoir trouvé un fil plus adéquat..
à déplacer pour rapatrier vers une section plus ufologique, si nécessaire.Acclaimed director Daniel Pace to appear on Open Minds Radio
Phoenix based director Daniel Pace—whose acclaimed film "
The Appearance of a Man" mesmerized an audience largely composed of UFO experiencers, researchers and contactees at a recent capacity screening for the Phoenix UFO community—will appear on
Alejandro Rojas' Open Minds internet radio show to discuss the film, its complex themes and the response of the UFO community to his work. The show will air on Blogtalk network this afternoon.
Filmmaker Daniel Pace addressing a recent meeting of Phoenix MUFON.
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Photo: Larry LoweThe screening for the UFO community was a trial by fire for Pace, who was not trying to make a UFO film, but rather a conceptual inquiry into a number of larger questions that emerge from a variety of phenomenon that go back into recorded history to the bible and beyond. Because the inciting incident to the plot is the appearance of the lights in the sky over Phoenix on the night of March 13, 1997, however, the film is too easily categorized as a UFO film and the response of the Phoenix UFO community was an inevitable issue in the roll-out of the film. Pace tackled the issue head-on sponsoring a screening and enlisting the aid of Phoenix MUFON and the Phoenix UFO Examiner to invite the community.
Pace need not have worried as the film met with almost universal kudos from the audience during a post screening Q&A session. Well known Phoenix Lights witness Tim Ley, whose graphic representation of the carpenter-square V shaped craft with 5 lights is instantly recognizable to those with any familiarity with the case due to its appearance in the USA Today story that broke the story nation wide, later said that in his opinion Pace had '
hit the nail on the head'. A three-decade veteran of the UFO and abduction phenomenon who was deeply involved with the immediate aftermath of the Phoenix Lights event said that the film was '
poignant, brilliant and transcendent. It was an accurate and realistic portrayal of many experiecers reports. The film is a clarion call for the contact experience.'
Others were prompted to share experiences of enigmatic strangers who arrive in their lives, provide moral and spiritual support and then disappear, as if, they say, God had intervened gently in their lives.
Pace's movie asks fundamental questions that expand the context and scope of the UFO phenomenon into a realm where patterns may begin to emerge:
Today we call them aliens--what if 2000 years ago we called them angels? Do you remember what you looked like before you were born? What if dying is just getting up and walking into another room? — The Appearance of a ManThese are questions the likes of which cause the viewer to begin to question the narrow stereotypes of alien visitation and UFO observation presented by our media. The film challenges the validity of a rigid perception of reality that has trapped the mind of western man in a box of context bounded by what John Anthony West calls the Four Cowboys of the Apocalypse: Capitalism, Technology, Patriotism and Democracy, all of which constrict in their own way the thought process to the singular mono-dimensional truth of their respective religions.
Appreciation of the film was not universal, however and one newcomer to the UFO field who clearly has not had enough experience in the variety of high strangeness which witness reports present the seasoned investigator was quick to dismiss Pace's work as cheap entertainment--based on a remarkably narrow point of view which presumes there is somehow a one and only truth to the astounding spectrum of UFO phenomenon which could be derived by a brief examination of the material. This display of naiveté was enough to make anyone who has seriously investigated the field shudder, but it served to make the point that perhaps the larger issues go completely unrecognized by those focusing on a single aspect of the issue as a quick 'solution' to the problem.
It is characteristic of the film to provoke a strong response one way or the other Pace admits. By his estimation, roughly 85% of the viewers at screenings around the world 'get' the film and are positive, while the remainder do not and give a clearly negative response to his work. Interestingly these figures corelate with the roughtly 75% of Americans who believe life exists elsewhere in the universe, which indicates that mankind's viewpoint is, with the exception of a vocal minority, increasingly less homo-centric in viewpoint..
The idea that angels/aliens might choose to appear in what is indistinguishable from human form, if one internalizes it, is challenging. It is not, however, without precedent. International UFO Congress director Don Ware has documented a strange case in which an enigmatic man would flag down a ride along a straight stretch of highway, get in the car, make some small talk, announce that 'Gabriel is about to blow his horn' and then vanish in front of the other occupants of the vehicle, only to appear elsewhere and repeat the performance.
If these entities, whatever they are, can choose to appear as balls of conscious light or as indistinguishable from human beings, what does that say about how we might interact with them? Are we so narrow as to only accept what Paul Von Ward calls advanced beings if they look as we do, down to the characteristics of the same race of humanity?
Daniel Pace, left, discusses the nature of the UFO phenomenon
with Phoenix Lights witness Tim Ley.
Photo: Larry LoweThe range of motives and origin of the reports throughout history can no more be glibly dismissed as all of evil intention merely because some abduction accounts sound like the story a polar bear would tell of being tranquilized and tagged than Pace's complex and engaging film can be dismissed as cheap saturday matinee entertainment. The phenomenon is too complex for that.
Rojas, a recent addition to the Phoenix UFO community, understands that. The conversation between the two should be compelling listening.
Being a big fan of John Mack in particular I don't think that the answers are as black and white as good/bad or physical/non-physical, the answers lay somewhere in-between or outside of those simple conventions. I was particularly interested in the things Daniel had to say in the discussion after the film. I think has a great way of expressing the ambiguity and interconnectivity of all of these phenomena." — Alejandro Rojas, Open Minds Radio.Pace had intended to make personal screenings of the film available to the listeners of the Open Minds program, but pressing demands of multiple projects and and developmental issues with an emerging technology precluded that experiement. The film will be available for viewing in select opportunities, however, as the technology matures.
In the meantime a conversation with Pace is almost as compelling as the film itself and Rojas has the experience to provide a thoughtful interview.
The episode will be delivered live from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM.
Larry Lowe sur "EXAMINER.COM", le 15 octobre 2009
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