Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind
- gentle
- surreal
- cold
Neutral, steady, gentle documentary / spy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Dr. Steven Greer’s previous works, SIRIUS and UNACKNOWLEDGED, broke crowdfunding records and ignited a grassroots movement. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE FIFTH KIND features groundbreaking video and photographic evidence and supporting interviews from prominent figures such as Adam Curry of Princeton’s PEAR Lab; legendary civil rights attorney Daniel Sheehan, and Dr. Russell Targ, who headed the CIA’s top secret remote viewing program. Their message: For thousands of people, contact has begun. This is their story.
Our read · Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind (2020) reads as a neutral, steady, surreal documentary · spy entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a documentary on initiating contact with ETs through consciousness and evidence.”
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The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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