Actually, there was only one person in the film that's had any sort of experience in front of the camera in an 'acting' sense, and that was the Geomorphologist with the red beard and turtleneck. He's a co-worker of mine. The rest of the cast were pretty much who they say they are. Old English Professors, history professors, MIT roboticists...the 'Goblin Man enthusiast' is actually a subject of mine from a short REAL documentary I did on time travel. It's called Obsessed & Scientific: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1321601577799086630
I asked these people to talk about this goblin in a context that is real, using their knowledge and expertise to simply hypothesize what this sort of find would be like and what the technology could contain. It was an interesting form of direction, basically approaching the documentary format with the intentions of totally manipulating all of the subjects. (With their consent of course) Very much inspired by Werner Herzog's 'Wild Blue Yonder'.
