contact (kòn´tàkt´) noun
1. a. A coming together or touching, as of objects or surfaces. b. The state or condition of touching or of immediate proximity: Litmus paper turns red on contact with an acid.
2. a. Connection or interaction; communication: in contact with the right people. b. Visual observation: The pilot made contact with the ship. c. Association; relationship: came into contact with new ideas at college.
3. A person who might be of use; a connection.

4. Electricity. a. A connection between two conductors that permits a flow of current. b. A part or device that makes or breaks such a connection.
5. Medicine. A person recently exposed to a contagious disease, usually through close association with an infected individual.
6. A contact lens.

verb
contacted, contacting, contacts (kòn´tàkt´, ken-tàkt´) verb, transitive
1. To bring or put in contact.
2. To get in touch with; communicate with: "This past January I was contacted by a lawyer who said he needed my help" (Elizabeth Loftus).

verb, intransitive
To be in or come into contact.

adjective
1. Of, sustaining, or making contact.
2. Caused or transmitted by touching: a contact skin rash.
[Latin contâctus, from past participle of contingere, to touch : com-, com- + tangere, to touch.]
- contac´tual (ken-tàk´ch¡-el) adjective
- contac´tually adverb

film _Contact_ (vhs/ntsc) starring Jodie Foster.  based on the only fictional book written by Carl Sagan

Faces:

• Jodie Foster (_Taxi Driver_)
• Tom Skerritt (_Alien_)
• James Woods (_Videodrome_)

"Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyper  -dimensional, and extremely alien...What is driving religious feeling [today] is a wish for contact [with that] Other." - _Terence McKenna_
 

The main problem with searching for extraterrestrials is to recognize them. Time is so vast and evolutionary strategies and environments so varied that the trick is to know that contact is being made at all. - _Archaic Revival_ p.42

It is only the conceit of the scientific and postindustrial societies that allows us to even propound some of the questions that we take to be so important. For instance, the question of contact with extraterrestrials is a kind of red herring premised upon a number of assumptions that a moment's reflection will show are completely false. To search expectantly for a radio signal from an extraterrestrial source is probably as culture bound a presumption as to search the galaxy for a good Italian restaurant. And yet, this has been chosen as the avenue by which it is assumed contact is likely to occur. Meanwhile, there are people all over the world -- psychics, shamans, mystics, schizophrenics -- whose heads are filled with information, but it has been ruled a priori irrelevant, incoherent, or mad. Only that which is validated through consensus via certain sanctioned instrumentalities will be accepted as a signal. The problem is that we are so inundated by these signals -- these otherdimensions -- that there is a great deal of noise in the circuit.

 - Terence McKenna - _Tryptamine Hallucinogens And Consciousness_
 

• SETI
• Very Large Array (VLA)
• Arecibo
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• Anomalog: SETI Says 22 Years For Contact
• Occam's Razor
• Wormholes

• 604 track _Contact_ MP3 (160k)(ed2k160k) by Eat Static off of _Science of the Gods_ promo CD on Planet Dog
• 604 release _Contact_ CDs by Eat Static on Ultimate/Planet Dog (1998)
• 604 track _Contact_ by Factor off of _Elastic_ compilation 12"x3 on 21-3

• 604 trip hop acid jazz dub track _Minimal Contact_ MP3 (160k) by Electroslide off of _Everything Is Connected To Nothing But Itself_
• 604 track _Invisible Contact_ by Pigs In Space on Phonokol
• 604 track _Color Contact_  MP3 by Amaruvision
• 604 track _Contact_ by Disco Volante off of _Another Taste Of Transient_ compilation CDx2
• 604 track _Peyote (Contact)_ MP3 by I.L.O.
• 604 track _Spirital Contact_ by Messenger off of _Sympathy In Chaos 3_ compilation CDb on Matsuri Productions (1999)
• 604 track _First Contact_ MP3 by Slide
• sample: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..."  by replicant Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) from the film _Blade Runner_  (vhs/ntsc) (1982)

 
• 604 track _Intelligate_ MP3 by Infected Mushroom off of _Intelligate/Small Moves_ 12" on Shiva Space Technology
• samples: "this is a unique time in our history, history of a civilization. it's the moment of acquisition of technology, and that is the moment where contact becomes possible.";  "small moves, kid, small moves..." - from the film _Contact_
• hip hop track _Positive Contact_ MP3 (192k) by Deltron 3030 off of s/t on 75 Ark (2000)
  • turntablist track _Positive Contact (Mario C Remix)_ MP3 (192k) by Mixmaster Mike off of _Spin Psycle_ MixCD on Moonshine (2001)
• techno track _Contact_ MP3 (160k) by Byron Bogues off of _Manmachine_ 12" on 440hz #019
• techno track _Native Contact (Mixed)_ MP3 (192k) by Lars Klein
  • techno _Native Contact ep_ 12" by Lars Klein on Compressed #006 (2001)
    • a1 _Sourcecode_ MP3 (192k)
    • b2 _Dark Shield_ MP3
• techno track _Contact_ MP3 (192k) by Kai Randy Michel off of _Blasteroid_ 12" on Planet Vision #043 (2001)
• tech house release _Contact Funk ep_ 12" by Aubrey on Mosaic #004 (1997)
• tech house release _Minimal Contact_ 12" by Stefan Schmidt on Limbo (2001)
• a1 _(Silicone Soul Hypno Dub)_ MP3 (192k)
• b1 _(Original Mix)_
• techno release _Contact ep_ 12" on Equator #004 (2001)
• a1  Gayle San - _Bermuda_ MP3 (192k)
• b1  Jay Denham - _Night Rider_ MP3 (192k)
• techno tracks _Contact In Context Pt. 1_ MP3 (vK) & _Contact In Context Pt. 2_ MP3 (vK) by Diego off of _Mouth Of The Fresh Flowers_ 12"x2 on Kanzleramt (2000)
• abstract breakbeat track _First Contact_ MP3 by Planetary off of _Origins_ ep 12" on Metamorphic #023 (1993)
• dub jazz track _Contact_ MP3 (vK) by Terranova off of _DJ Kicks_ 12" on Studio !K7 #064 (1997)
• shibuya-kei ambient techno track _Contact (Percolator Mix)_ MP3 (160k) by Pizzicato Five off of _Combinaison Spaciale EP: Pizzicato Five In Dub_ CD5 on Matador (1997)
• party - Koinonea - Contact In The Mojave 4/18/98
• ethnic fusion track _Peyote Healing_ MP3 (vK) by Robbie Robertson off of _Contact From The Underworld Of Red Boy_ (1998)
• track _Kontakte_ MP3 by Karlheinz Stockhausen off of _Ohm: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music 1948-1980_
• minimal house track _Slight Contact_ MP3 by Tichy off of _Access_ 12" on Fieber #011 (1999)
• adult contemporary world electronica track _Unbound_ MP3 (160k) by Robbie Robertson off of _Contact From The Underworld Of Red Boy_ (1998)
• obscuro electronic release _Contact_ 12" by Silver Apples (1969)

• _You And I_
• _Water_ MP3
• _Ruby_
• _Gypsy Love_ MP3
• _You're Not Fooling Me_
• _I Have Known Love_
• _A Pox On You_
• _Confusion_
• _Fantasies_

Executive: We must confess that your proposal seems less like science and more like science fiction.

Dr. Ellie Arroway: Science fiction. You're right, it's crazy. In fact, it's even worse than that, it's nuts. You wanna hear something really nutty? I heard of a couple guys who wanna build something called an airplane, you know you get people to go in, and fly around like birds, it's ridiculous, right? And what about breaking the sound barrier, or rockets to the moon? Atomic energy, or a mission to Mars? Science fiction, right? Look, all I'm asking is for you to just have the tiniest bit of vision. You know, to just sit back for one minute and look at the big picture. To take a chance on something that just might end up being the most profoundly impactful moment for humanity, for the history... of history.
 
 

• The character of Kent Clark is based on real-life SETI Institute scientist Dr. Kent Cullers.
• Author and producer Carl Sagan died during production of the film. He was reportedly taking great care to ensure that "science" was accurately depicted in the film.
• The spilled popcorn near the beginning of the film is in the shape of a crescent that reappears throughout the movie. It reportedly represents the constellation Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown, which was Carl Sagan's favorite constellation due to its resemblance to the dish of a radio telescope.
• The character of Dr. Arroway was modeled after two of the pioneering radio astronomers of the 1930s and 1940s, Grote Reber and John Kraus; both men were ham radio operators at an early age.
• The Argus Project, featuring 100+ radio telescopes, is named after a monster with a hundred eyes from Greek mythology.
• The sounds heard during the film's opening shot include:

 

• _Semi-Charmed Life_ MP3 by Third Eye Blind;
• _Wannabe_ MP3 by The Spice Girls;
• _God Shuffled His Feet_ MP3 (320k) by Crash Test Dummies;
• "Obviously a major malfunction..." - Challenger Shuttle disaster";
•  The theme to _Dallas_ MP3 (1978);
• "Sometimes You Feel Like A Nut..." - Almond Joy/Mounds Chocolate bar commercial MP3;
• _Funkytown_ MP3 by Pseudo Echo (cover of Lipps, Inc.)
• Richard Nixon's "I am not a crook" speech;
• Walter Cronkite announcing the assassination of President Kennedy MP3;
• Neil Armstrong's "One Small Step" speech;
• _Yellow Polka Dot Bikini_;
• "I Have A Dream..." a Martin Luther King Jr. speech MP3 (64k);
• Theme from _The Twilight Zone_ MP3.

Contact (1997)

Directed by  Robert Zemeckis

Writing credits
Carl Sagan  (story) and  Ann Druyan

Genre: Drama / Sci-Fi / Romance

Tagline: The Academy Award-winning director of "Forrest Gump" and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Contact" take you on a journey to the heart of the universe.

Plot Outline: Dr. Ellie Arroway, after years of searching, finds conclusive radio proof of intelligent aliens, who send plans for a mysterious machine.

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jena Malone ....Young Ellie
David Morse ....Ted Arroway
Jodie Foster  ....  Ellie Arroway
Geoffrey Blake  ....  Fisher
William Fichtner  ....  Kent
Sami Chester  ....  Vernon
Timothy McNeil ....  Davio
Laura Elena Surillo  ....  Cantina Woman
Matthew McConaughey  .... Palmer Joss
Tom Skerritt  ....  David Drumlin
Henry Strozier  .... Minister
Michael Chaban  ....  Hadden Suit
Max Martini  .... Willie
Larry King (I) ....  Himself
Thomas Garner  .... Ian Broderick

MPAA: Rated PG for some intense action, mild language and a scene of sensuality.
Runtime: USA:153 / UK:143 / Australia:144 / Germany:143 /New Zealand:150 / Sweden:150
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color (Technicolor)
Sound Mix: DTS / Dolby Digital / SDDS
Certification: USA:PG / UK:PG / Finland:K-12/9 / Germany:12 (bw) /Australia:M / Norway:7 / Sweden:7 / Netherlands:AL / Belgium:KT

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