"Neither a fake documentary nor a real fiction" (director Alessandro Mercuri's description). Alien American focuses on Basia, a Polish-American woman living in Los Angeles, who claims to be an alien in her past life. She takes us through ...See more"Neither a fake documentary nor a real fiction" (director Alessandro Mercuri's description). Alien American focuses on Basia, a Polish-American woman living in Los Angeles, who claims to be an alien in her past life. She takes us through American history, from the discoveries of Hernan Cortes to the moon landing, "accounts of paranormal activity, testimonies of spaceship encounters. episodes of Star Trek and her own unusual experiences on the 405 freeway. All of these narratives, both factual and counterfactual, hover together is an ephemeral cloud that refuses the hierarchy of fact over fiction, and, more usefully, shows that this phantasmagoria constitutes American ideology." Written by
Final quotation from Holly Willis, L.A Weekly
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