Where We Were: The Wiggle Time Live Incident (2019)

No one could have known the impact that Trixie and her spaceship would have on millions of people around the world. But how and why did it happen? And where were you?

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“Where We Were: The Wiggle Time Live Incident” is a mockumentary film probing the traumatized fans of a live children’s show about the notorious episode that went awry, changing their perceptions of the world forever.

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I am fascinated by American's generational "where were you" moments -- Pearl Harbor, the JFK assassination, 9/11. In making this film, I wanted to imagine what might happen to a generation of children who witnessed an event of that magnitude as part of an after school television program.

 

I wrote "Where We Were: The Wiggle Time Live Incident" around the time that Twitter was blowing up with the #Area51 hashtag. It was a call to arms for everyday citizens to rise up against a government keeping secrets from them. While the movement was mostly a meme for the LOLZ , I think it speaks to a larger feelings that we as Americans have about our government today. We feel lied to, we feel the truth has been obfuscated, and we want to know what's really going on. And perhaps the fact it centered around aliens means we're also really hoping there's more intelligent life out there than what's currently going on down here.