The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)

Italy, 81m, Colour
Director: Werner Herzog; Cast: Brad Dourif

Using documentary film shot by NASA, combined with his own original footage, which includes Brad Dourif – as an alien who came to Earth but had gone largely unnoticed because he “sucked” – The Wild Blue Yonder is Werner Herzog’s strangely captivating and cautionary science fiction tale. Highly comedic at times, the alien recounts various “historic” events, including the Roswell UFO crash and earth’s mission to Blue Yonder (his own frozen planet) in order to establish a new human colony.  Despite the unusual nature of this production, there is an underlying beauty in the images and music – while the narration reveals an environmental subtext and a proclamation of the absurdity of traveling to other galaxies within the time which humans have remaining as a species on earth (Klaus Ming October 2010).