# Contact (1997) **Domain:** Cinema / Communication / Epistemology **Doc Type:** Movie Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Robert Zemeckis]], [[Carl Sagan]], [[Contact (novel)]], [[Movies]], [[Disclosure Asymmetry]] --- ## Definition _Contact_ is Robert Zemeckis's 1997 film adapted from Carl Sagan's novel about a scientist who receives extraterrestrial instructions, helps build a machine and undergoes an experience institutions cannot publicly verify. ## Corpus Context The film joins [[Receiving Theater]], machine-mediated communication and evidentiary asymmetry. The traveler knows more than the public record can prove, while unexplained recorded duration keeps the file open. ## Relationships [[Robert Zemeckis]], [[Carl Sagan]], [[Contact (novel)]], [[Movies]], [[Disclosure Asymmetry]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]