Geometry Movies

  • 1965
    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

    7.31965HD

    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...

    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
  • 2018
    M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity

    M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity

    M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity

    72018HD

    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...

    M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity
  • 2010
    Clouds Are Not Spheres

    Clouds Are Not Spheres

    Clouds Are Not Spheres

    7.72010HD

    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....

    Clouds Are Not Spheres
  • 2007
    Flatland

    Flatland

    Flatland

    5.62007HD

    Set in a world of only two dimensions inhabited by sentient geometric shapes, the story follows Arthur Square and his ever-curious granddaughter Hex....

    Flatland
  • 2007
    Flatland

    Flatland

    Flatland

    62007HD

    Flatland is a two-dimensional universe occupied by living geometric figures - squares, triangles, circles, etc. A Square, Attorney At Law, finds...

    Flatland
  • 1970
    Dimensions

    Dimensions

    Dimensions

    01970HD

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

    Dimensions
  • 1978
    Cubits

    Cubits

    Cubits

    01978HD

    Jarnow adapts an architectural grid catalogue of cubic rotations in order to explore a direct relationship between animation procedure and logical...

    Cubits
  • 1972
    French Windows

    French Windows

    French Windows

    51972HD

    An experimental animation for "One of These Days" by Pink Floyd.

    French Windows
  • 1961
    Four-Point Conics

    Four-Point Conics

    Four-Point Conics

    51961HD

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

    Four-Point Conics
  • 1977
    Map Projections

    Map Projections

    Map Projections

    01977HD

    In what would become a familiar theme throughout his carrer, Jarnow explores the earth from above, invoking Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion and the...

    Map Projections
  • 1973
    Tondo

    Tondo

    Tondo

    51973HD

    Tondo introduces the cosmic formalism that was the primary theme of Al Jarnow's independent films. An infinite gridscape alternates with vibrating...

    Tondo
  • 1975
    Rotating Cubic Grid

    Rotating Cubic Grid

    Rotating Cubic Grid

    01975HD

    The primary motif in this silent picture is a grid that controls the shapes and motions of forms contained within the framework of a rotating cube....

    Rotating Cubic Grid
  • 1948
    Geometry and You

    Geometry and You

    Geometry and You

    01948HD

    Shows how Jim and Bob use protractor and ruler to study such figures as rectangles, triangles and circles, and such principles as congruence,...

    Geometry and You
  • 1965
    About the Small Square and the Small Triangle

    About the Small Square and the Small Triangle

    About the Small Square and the Small Triangle

    01965HD

    Zdeněk Miler's animation short about geometrical shapes.

    About the Small Square and the Small Triangle
  • 1954
    From the Point to the Shape

    From the Point to the Shape

    From the Point to the Shape

    01954HD

    Considered to be artist Martin Blaszko's only incursion into film. Through the experimentation with various film techniques, the artist speaks of the...

    From the Point to the Shape
  • 1979
    Cube

    Cube

    Cube

    01979HD

    A filmed exercise that follows in the path of Rotating Cubic Grid and Cubits, the predictably titled Cube features cubes of varying shapes and size...

    Cube
  • 1977
    Perspectives

    Perspectives

    Perspectives

    01977HD

    Jarnow regularizes a child's primitive sketch of a house into increasingly firmer architecture, showing how the same place might by rendered by...

    Perspectives
  • 2019
    Toroid

    Toroid

    Toroid

    02019HD

    Toroid is an experimental audio-reactive animation work that demonstrates the possibilities of harnessing digital waveforms of electronic origin into...

    Toroid
  • 1967
    The Art of Fugue

    The Art of Fugue

    The Art of Fugue

    01967HD

    Japan's first computer generated animation

    The Art of Fugue