In 2017, Mark Borchadt, of American Movie fame***, released a forty minute documentary called, The Dundee Project. For many years, Borchadt had been attending and filming a UFO convention in the small town of Dundee, Wisconsin. To call it a "convention" is an overstatement. It's basicslly a bunch of drunken UFO believers drinking beer in a parking lot waiting for aliens to fly by. To call The Dundee Project a "documentary" is an also overstatement. It's more like a home movie but that's what makes it fun.
Nothing much happens, to be honest, but it's a quirky character study of a moment captured in time. The hero of the film is a local crank named UFO Bob. The elderly goodnatured UFO believer spends most of the movie pontificating on various pseudo scientific theories, laughing and downing bottles of Samuel Adams beer.
The Dundee Project is not a great movie, to be honest, I'm not even sure you can call it a movie. But if you have thirty minutes or so to spare, take some time to hangout and drink some beer with the denziens of Dundee, Wisconsin. They're worth it. Checkout the trailer below.
***On a sad note, I recently read that Mike Schank of American Movie passed away late last year. Checkout the obituarry in Rolling Stone Magazine HERE
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