What on Earth? -- "Inside the crop circle mystery," which won the 2009 EBE Award for Best Feature Documentary from the UFO Congress Film Festival, will be screened as part of the LA FEMME FILM FESTIVAL on Thursday, October 15, at 10 am at the Davidson/Valentini Theatre, 1125 N. McCadden Place, Los Angeles, CA 90038.
What on Earth? tracks Producer/Director Suzanne Taylor’s interactions, in England, as part of an international community of visionary artists, scientists, philosophers, mathematicians, educators, writers, and farmers who marvel at crop circles, the unexplained global phenomenon that has puzzled humanity for centuries.
Circle enthusiasts, who converge in England every summer to go circle-chasing and indulge in circle analysis, talk about they have become so fascinated by this phenomenon. Evidence is presented that challenges the idea that all the glyphs are made by people, and the motives of the hoaxers, who make some of them, is a subject for speculation. So is the question about what is delivering the circles and why they are being created.
“The most startling revelations we get from crop circles come from their shapes,” says Taylor. “We are being given a virtual curriculum in number and geometry.” The film also looks at the circles as art and as instigations to reexamine ancient knowledge lost to a culture separated from nature.
In the film, interviewees speculate about what the effect would be if it were ascertained that the circles aren't being made by us. “If we knew we were not the only advanced intelligence in the cosmos,” says Taylor, “we would be one humanity in relation to ‘the other,’ and, as someone in the film says, ‘That could be what saves this civilization.’”