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Dimensional Treatise
Peter Sykes, SciFi Lists
Destined for cult status,
Ladd Ehlinger Jr's
Flatland
is a triumph over big budgets and modern extravagances.
For those of us who revelled in the offbeat animated flicks
the 60s and 70s offered up, this film is a welcome respite.
Based on the late-19th century novel by mathematician
Edwin A Abbott,
Flatland
is a tale aimed at exploring the very
possibilities of existence.
The hero is A Square, a lawyer in a politically turbulent two-dimensional world run by circles.
In a dream sequence he tries to explain the nature of existence to the inhabitants of a
one-dimensional world to whom he appears omnipotent.
Given this, the animation is basic 2D until A Square is visited by a powerful sphere who
takes him to an amazing 3D world.
With virtually no budget to speak of Ehlinger pulls off a masterstroke of invention. Math
and animation combine to show that inter-dimensionality can always go one better.
A screen capture of Flatland on SciFi Lists
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