What On Earth?: Inside the Crop Circles Mystery
Suzanne Taylor
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Plot Summary
Take a ride with filmmaker Suzanne Taylor as she engages a fascinating subculture of artists, educators, geometers, philosophers, and farmers who are enthralled by the mystery of crop circles. For twenty years, Taylor has been part of a lively international community that gathers in England every summer to study and document circle developments. The film, filled with stunning imagery of the circles, deals with how our scientific materialistic worldview hampers serious investigation of one of the great mysteries of our time and the many indications that it is not a human perpetration. It goes on to speculate about how ascertaining the circles come from other intelligence would help us think as a planet, giving us our best chance to solve the global problems that challenge us now. The movie won the Best Feature Documentary Award from the UFO Film Congress and an Award for Excellence from the Paranormal Film Festival.
Customer Reviews
New York Times Excellent Review
April 21, 2011
NEW YORK TIMES
“What On Earth?’ Probes Mysteries of Crop Circles
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
A cheery, chummy documentary about the pastoral patterns inaccurately described as crop circles, Suzanne Taylor’s “What On Earth?” musters a gaggle of enthusiasts to dish on the phenomenon.
They’re a diverse bunch — farmers and philosophers, scientists and a singer-songwriter — and Ms. Taylor, a former actress who first became involved with the group in the early 1990s, uses her familiarity to encourage them to open up. Merging homey interviews with photographs and film of the hundreds of varieties of patterns (which pop up mysteriously overnight and are found all over the world), the film makes no pretense of objectivity or analysis. Everyone on screen — most sporting little blue flowers in their lapels, like a club insignia — is convinced of an intelligence behind the designs.
“I knew that something beyond the beyond was going on,” one interviewee says, echoing the metaphysical beliefs of many circle fans. But it’s the film’s geometrists who enthrall most, revealing that many of the shapes — one of which famously made the cover of a 1990 Led Zeppelin album — hold entirely new answers to Euclidean problems.
Set mainly in the bucolic beauty of Wiltshire, England (a hotbed of circle activity), “What On Earth?” touches on famous hoaxes and enjoys a brief visit to the conspiracy-theory place.
The film’s main attractions, though, are the patterns themselves: fantastically precise whorls and curlicues, radiolaria and mandalas that drift across the screen like the endlessly reforming crystals in a kaleidoscope. Whether designed by nature or by little green men, they make you want to believe.
What are Crop Circles?!
Just start with the facts. Some circles are manmade, but even the strongest proponent of the manmade theory cannot prove that all of them are. Suppose only one of them could not be explained away. Where would we be left?
What on Earth?
Suzanne Taylor poses this question and responds, displaying all the evidence with honesty and charm.
She shows that if the circles themselves are the first mysterious phenomenon, the second is the blind eye of humanity.
This opens into a reality full of wonder.
See this movie, take your blinders off.
Awesome!!
Fascinating subject that has to be the greatest mystery on earth today is sensitively and entertainingly explored.
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