Earthlings (tbc)
- Run time: 1 hour 10 mins
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 8th September 2006
- Starring: Michael Dorn, Louise Whitty, Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen
- Directed by: Alexandre O. Philippe
- Official Website: www.earthlings-movie.com
- Distributor: Swipe Films
Plot Synopsis
On August 1, 2003, 33 people met at a Philadelphia hotel to celebrate and speak a language from Outer Space. The entertaining documentary, Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water, captures the life, passions and quirks of the members of the Klingon Language Institute. Interviews of KLI members (Linguists, Psychologists, Star Trek fans and steadfast individualists), reveal the intellectual, fraternal, liberating and no-nonsense, direct qualities they enjoy within the constructed-from-pop-culture Klingon language. From Louise Witty, who becomes fascinated with the language from her interest in Klingon boots (and then fabricates and sells them) to a Paintball King who shouts strategic, military movements in the Klingon tongue, Earthlings examines the interplay between culture and language, communication and emotion, and the rather delicate line between reality and fiction.
Earthlings is not a Trekkies (1994) imitator, but instead an entertaining view of an intellectual (and not-so-intellectual) endeavor to sort out and to explore humans and language, and the definitions of success and failure.