AREA 51, NEVADA, USA
A film by Annabelle Amoros
Short film · 2017 · 15 minutes · Documentary
Original language : Without dialogues
Area 51, Nevada, USA is a film that explores the surroundings of Area 51 in the Nevada desert, United States. This military zone is heavily guarded, protected, and monitored by the US military. No one can access it, not even planes or satellites, which are banned from flying over it. To prevent any intrusion, the zone was expanded to incorporate the surrounding mountains, forming an impassable natural border. However, strange and unusual lights can occasionally be seen escaping from it, and explosion noises can be heard in the distance.
These clues, familiar to local residents but so strange to tourists, suggest that secret activities are taking place there. Whether involving military technology experimentation or extraterrestrial presence, the base's activities and the absolute impossibility of seeing or knowing what happens within leave the collective imagination to fuel countless fantasies.
Awards & selections
- Cinémathèque du documentaire – Centre Pompidou
- Museum of Photography, Charleroi
- Le Lieu documentaire – MAMCS Strasbourg
- Kyoto Art Center
- Frac Champagne-Ardenne
- Le Fresnoy – National Studio of Contemporary Arts
- IndieLisboa
- War on Screen Film Festival
- Cheap Cuts Documentary Film Festival
- Poitiers Film Festival
Credits
Screenwriter & Director: Annabelle Amoros Director of Photography: Annabelle AMOROS Assistant Director: Randa MAROUFI Film Editors: Annabelle AMOROS and Cédric LE FLOC’H
Colorist: Baptiste EVRARD
Graphic Designer: Paul GUILBERT
Sound Composers: Léonore MERCIER
Sound Mixer: Rémi MENCUCCI
