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Don’t miss the Netflix short film ‘John was trying to contact aliens’
08.20.2020
07:12 am
This is a guest post by Nicholas Abrahams.
If you have a spare fifteen whole minutes, you could do worse than check out the new short film John was trying to contact aliens on Netflix about John Shepherd, a guy who has spent 30 years beaming out obscure music to aliens, constructing a homemade SETI project based at—and taking over—his grandparents home in rural Michigan. We shot the breeze with director Matt Killip.
Dangerous Minds: Firstly, how did you come across John Shepherd, the subject of your new short film on Netflix?
Matt Killip: I first saw a picture of John in the book Messengers of Deception by the UFO researcher Jacques Vallée. The same photo is in my film: John is seated in front of a large bank of UFO tracking machines in a living room, with his grandma next to him doing her knitting. I immediately wanted to know more about this image—what was going on here?
Luckily I was able to track John down and make contact. When I heard about the circumstances of his personal life I started to realize his story could make a beautiful film. A while later I found some footage of John broadcasting the band Harmonia into outer space. It turned out that John was broadcasting loads of music that I love into the cosmos: Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Terry Riley, Gamelan music from Indonesia, free jazz, loads of reggae and dub ... It was an amazing playlist—in effect a cosmic radio station broadcasting music for aliens.
https://youtu.be/Jr83bJsT6OA
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/dont_miss_the_netflix_short_film_john_was_trying_to_contact_aliens?utm_source=Dangerous+Minds+newsletter&utm_campaign=2cf4246d10-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ecada8d328-2cf4246d10-65891333
Thanks to: https://dangerousminds.net
08.20.2020
07:12 am
This is a guest post by Nicholas Abrahams.
If you have a spare fifteen whole minutes, you could do worse than check out the new short film John was trying to contact aliens on Netflix about John Shepherd, a guy who has spent 30 years beaming out obscure music to aliens, constructing a homemade SETI project based at—and taking over—his grandparents home in rural Michigan. We shot the breeze with director Matt Killip.
Dangerous Minds: Firstly, how did you come across John Shepherd, the subject of your new short film on Netflix?
Matt Killip: I first saw a picture of John in the book Messengers of Deception by the UFO researcher Jacques Vallée. The same photo is in my film: John is seated in front of a large bank of UFO tracking machines in a living room, with his grandma next to him doing her knitting. I immediately wanted to know more about this image—what was going on here?
Luckily I was able to track John down and make contact. When I heard about the circumstances of his personal life I started to realize his story could make a beautiful film. A while later I found some footage of John broadcasting the band Harmonia into outer space. It turned out that John was broadcasting loads of music that I love into the cosmos: Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Terry Riley, Gamelan music from Indonesia, free jazz, loads of reggae and dub ... It was an amazing playlist—in effect a cosmic radio station broadcasting music for aliens.
https://youtu.be/Jr83bJsT6OA
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/dont_miss_the_netflix_short_film_john_was_trying_to_contact_aliens?utm_source=Dangerous+Minds+newsletter&utm_campaign=2cf4246d10-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ecada8d328-2cf4246d10-65891333
Thanks to: https://dangerousminds.net
