THE DISTANCE TO THE SUN

The words of Bob Lazar, the physicist who for years was a central figure
in the debate over UFOs and who supposedly was witness to an alien
presence on Earth, introduces a trip to one of the most secret and
mysterious places in the world: Groom Lake, S4 zone in the Nevada
desert. We thus follow the perimeter of Area 51 – the symbol of the
conspiracy theories asserting that the US government has been in
contact with extraterrestrial organisms but is keeping it secret from
the public – and drive along highway 375, known as Extraterrestrial
Highway, all the way to Cielo Drive in Los Angeles, passing by way
of the ghost city Rachel and the Mount Palomar observatory.

“The Distance to the Sun is a recording of a sunny passage, of an
alien abduction, of a suffocating forward return: just as the light burns
images, the sound has covered the voice and the human presence.
The Area 51 in Nevada has become the prototype of a polygon around
which to move, creating the illusion we call history and corpuscular
visions we call memories.”