“Bill Brown’s Roswell […] takes a fanciful look at the supposed crash of a flying saucer near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. […] Brown…seems to take the event seriously. He wonders what the craft was doing in Roswell of all places, speculating that it was piloted by a ‘star boy…joyriding through the cosmos’ who ‘got lost and lost control.’ But Brown also sees his subject playfully, as if through a child’s eyes, […] The fish-eye lens used for some landscape shots curves the horizon line, making the sky seem enclosed– navigable, traversable. In the film’s strongest image, Brown stands facing the camera with a sheaf of papers in hand, as an animated drawing of a spaceship scoots across the paper, suggesting a connection between UFO fantasies and the magical possibilities of cinema.” -Fred Camper, Chicago Reader

Based on the book “UFO Crash at Roswell” by Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt, Roswell follows the attempts of Major Jesse Marcel to discover the truth about strange debris found on a local rancher’s field in July of 1947. Told by his superiors that what he has found is nothing more than a downed weather balloon, Marcel maintains his military duty until the weight of the truth, however out of this world it may be, forces him to piece together what really occurred.