Tuesday, March 30, 2010  Encounter in Ruwa: The Ariel School
Sighting  A Scientist at the Movies  Reviews by Greg Paris
Title: Encounter in Ruwa: The Ariel School Sighting Date Viewed:
6/12/09 Director: Randall Nickerson Producer: Dominique
Callimanopulos, on behalf of the John E. Mack Institute The
Review: Recently I had the chance to join 100-120 other
Cantabrigians in a small, warm, poorly ventilated, overcrowded
(SRO) room -- equipped with some fiendishly designed and
horribly uncomfortable instruments of torture, a.k.a. folding
chairs -- to screen the draft digital rough-cut of a new
documentary, Encounter in Ruwa: The Ariel School Sighting. The
occasion was not only a premiere, but also a fund-raising event
to solicit money to finish the film, with ample opportunity for
the audience to engage both the director and producer in Q&A.
The film was curious -- not bad, not great, clearly incomplete
and still in search of itself. The ideas in and around the film
are interesting, and I'm sure some of the audien