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A Boston filmmaker whose recent documentary focuses on people who claim they were abducted by space aliens says she looks forward to returning to New Mexico where people are open to unconventional thinking.
When Laura Chilten's film Touched was screened at Santa Fe Film Festival in December, about one-fourth of the people in the standing-room-only audience indicated they had experience with beings from other planets, according to a festival news release.
"It was a very, very welcoming, curious audience," Chilten said in a telephone interview last week from her Boston home. "I'm used to very skeptical people in the audience."
Chilten, who describes herself as agnostic on the subject of space aliens, said she is at a loss for words to explain abductions, so she is pleased this week's screenings will be attended by John E. Mack, a Harvard psychiatrist known for his work with "abductees."
"I'm just a lowly filmmaker," she said. "This time, I'm going to sit back and let him do the Q&A."
Chilten said Mack approached her after seeing her previous documentaries, The Jew in the Lotus, about rabbis who visit the Dalai Lama in India, and Twist and Shout, about Tourette's syndrome.
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