The 11th Green

This movie is incredibly interesting and overflowing with talented actors and attributes! I've watched it 2 times so far. I'm looking forward to viewing it again and I truly hope it will be available to purchase on dvd.

This is a dense, cerebral motion picture. It is not a crowd-pleaser, not the latest Netflix original. It will, however, reward your attentive and undistracted viewing. Devastating but hopeful, well-crafted with strong performances, this film tackles an important subject that merits serious attention.

When hate and fear and disinformation are the order of the day, you get this. An acid trip gone bad.

The 11th Green begins understated: A passive reaction to a fantastical sighting; a monotone news report about preposterous technology. But audience beware: like a frog in a pot of slowly heated water, you won't know what hit you until you are boiling alive in the multi-faceted, technicolor time warp of auteur Christopher Munch's making. It's beautifully shot - some great desert frames and lasting images stick out as calming amongst the intellectual chaos. The briefly seen low budget CGI doesn't take away from the story - there's no time to unsuspend your disbelief when you're wrapping your head around outlandish hypotheticals intertwined with true to life historical figures, places, and events. The performances are acutely fun for the historically attuned. A psychedelic fever dream for the US history buff - or an active rejection of recent human history as we know it - you decide. This movie is the definition of what Sundance used to be for.

From what I can see, this film had a very limited release when it came out during the pandemic in 2020. I heard about it from a Project Unity podcast. I recommend it to anyone interested in the enigma of UFOs, even if you don't agree with all the details. And I didn't (for example, the possibility that elements of the government or military may be holding back breakthrough tech gleaned from UFOs). But, interestingly, other aspects of the movie wound up being supported by David Grusch's Congressional testimony in 2023, the Loose Threads document from 2022, etc. What the film lacks in big budget stuff, it makes up for in a wild, provocative story and good acting.