Flatland: It's A Film Now

I was intrigued to come across Paul Di Filippo's glowing review of a new full-length animated feature, Flatland, from independent filmmaker Ladd Ehlinger Jr. The classic 1884 Victorian science fiction novel, Flatland,by Edwin Abbott, imagined a world inhabited by two-dimensional beings who had no knowledge that a third dimension existed. The adventures of protagonist A. Square, unwittingly pulled into a three-dimensional world, serve as entertainment, geometry and physics lesson for non-math majors, and also as witty social satire and allegory.

Di Filippo observes that in the film, "Ehlinger manages to retain the Victorian satire on pomposity and cultural blindness while updating it to modern conditions. And the most central trope—that of conceptual breakthrough—is brilliantly handled."

The film is available for purchase here.