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Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water
13/04/2004 . Source: Jessica Martin 
New 70-Minute documentary visits the Klingon Language Institute's annual Qep'a' (Conference). The documentary Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water captures the lives, passions and quirks of the members of the Klingon Language Institute during their annual qep'a'.
Klingon is, of course, the warrior language invented by Linguist Marc Okrand for Star Trek. Earthlings will make its international debut at the upcoming Cannes Film Market, May 12th - 23rd, 2004.
"Language fascinates me," says Dr. Lawrence Shoen, Director of the Klingon Language Institute (KLI). "By age five, we have learned a lot of our language, and it defines our humanity, forms our society, and helps to develop and transfer our technology."
Humanity and society are just two of the themes examined in Earthlings. Director Alexandre Philippe shows the interplay between culture and language, communication and emotion, and the rather delicate line between reality and fiction within a science fiction-like background of visual textures, lighting and images.
Among the many 'ugly bags of mostly water' (the Klingon term used to describe Terrans), the Picture Show introduces Rich Yampell (Captain Krankor), the musical composer for whom the Klingon national anthem, 'taHaj wo' ('Long Live the Empire') might turn out to be his only hit song, Dr. d'Armond Speers, a Denver-based linguist who spoke only Klingon to his son until age three-and-a-half, and Michael J. Oetting, a postal worker, who attends the 2003 qep'a' to pass a language facility exam because, "It's about acceptance. If I pass the test, it's official - I am one of them."
Earthlings Producer Steve Williams of SONEW productions insists that, "Earthlings is not a Trekkies imitator (the 1994 documentary of a Star Trek convention), but instead it's a view of an intellectual (and sometimes not-so-intellectual) endeavor to sort out and to explore humans and language and the definitions of success and failure."
For more information about Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water, check 'em out over at www.earthlings-movie.com.
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