Geometry and You

Clouds Are Not Spheres

2010 · ★ 7.7

Until recently geometry was 'cold', incapable of describing the irregular shape of a cloud, the slope of a mountain or the beauty of the human body. With fractal geometry, Benoit Mandelbrot gave us a language for our natural world. In this captivating documentary, the man himself explains this groundbreaking discovery.

Solving the Bonnet Problem

2023

The documentary "Solving the Bonnet Problem" follows the work of three mathematicians as they collaborate to solve a long-standing geometrical problem proposed by Pierre Ossian-Bonnet. Alongside their work, the film explores the lives and contributions of Bonnet and his contemporary Gaston Darboux, as well as the history of French mathematics in the 19th century. Captivating computer graphics help unravel intricate concepts and make them accessible to all.

CircleSpeak

2005 · ★ 8

Shot in Southern England over the course of six weeks by a crew of three American filmmakers, CircleSpeak offers a nuanced look at the passions and beliefs of the people immersed in the crop circle phenomenon during the season of 2001. This feature-length documentary presents interviews with serious “researchers”, self-proclaimed “hoaxers”, local farmers and villagers who are all, in one way or another, involved in this strange and compelling summer spectacle taking place year after year.

M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity

2018 · ★ 6.9

A portrait of the visionary Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898-1972), according to his own words, taken from his diary, his correspondence and the texts of his lectures.

Berra

A film about art, mathematics, friendship, and social deprivation. Bertil lives in a decommissioned railway station in Skåne. He is internationally renowned, with monumental works displayed across Sweden, yet to gather the courage to walk to the local grocery store he needs a few glasses of wine under his belt. He is powerful, imaginative, humorous, and a resourceful storyteller. He jokes and performs for those around him whenever the opportunity arises. His sculptures are geometrically and mathematically calculated, and his tools are meticulously organized — but his life can be chaotic. One day, something happens: Bertil’s sculptures have disappeared.

Four-Point Conics

1961 · ★ 5

An experimental mathematics film designed to elucidate the study of four-line conics.

Dimensions

2013

Nine chapters, two hours of maths, that take you gradually up to the fourth dimension. Mathematical vertigo guaranteed!

Here Come the 123s

2008 · ★ 7.6

Rock legends, THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS return with their 2nd Children's album, GRAMMY® - winning HERE COME THE 123s. Follow up to the smash hit album, HERE COME THE ABCs, this fun and exciting CD + DVD of HERE COME THE 123s takes children on another educational musical adventure! This 2 disc set features 24 Brand New Songs PLUS an entire DVD of Music Videos that complement the songs on the CD.

About the Small Square and the Small Triangle

1965 · ★ 7

Zdeněk Miler's animation short about geometrical shapes.

The Art of Fugue

1967

Japan's first computer generated animation

The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

1965 · ★ 7.3

Animated work detailing the unrequited love that a line has for a dot, and the heartbreak that results due to the dot's feelings for a lively squiggle.

Flatland

2007 · ★ 5.8

Set in a world of only two dimensions inhabited by sentient geometric shapes, the story follows Arthur Square and his ever-curious granddaughter Hex. When a mysterious visitor arrives from Spaceland, Arthur and Hex must come to terms with the truth of the third dimension, risking dire consequences from the evil Circles that have ruled Flatland for a thousand years.