Grid Corrections (a one minute)

This film was made mining the Thomas Jefferson's Grid in Google Earth.
By superimposing a rectangular grid on the earth surface, a grid built from exact square miles, the spherical deviations have to be fixed. After all, the grid has only two dimensions.
The north-south boundaries in the grid are on the lines of longitude, which converge to the north. The roads that follow these boundaries must dogleg every twenty-four miles to counter the diminishing distances: Grid Corrections

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Screenings:

2017
International Film Festival Rotterdam
GLAS Animation Festival, Berkeley USA
Holland Animation Film Festival
Nederlands Film Festival, Utrecht
International Animation Festival, Ottawa
Videomedeja Festival, Novi Sad
Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel

2016
Centre Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona
Tallgrass Film Festival, Wichita KS
International Video Art Festival Now&After, Moscow

Distribution: LIMA http://li-ma.nl/site/

Made possible with the generous support of the Mondrian Fund, Amsterdam

Cast: Gerco de Ruijter and Michel Banabila

Tags: Roads, Miles, Corrections, Thomas Jefferson, Grid, Stop Motion, Google Earth, One Minutes, Sandberg, USA, Mid-West and Intersections