Achieving the Unachievable
Documentary 52 minutes, 2007
A film by Jean Bergeron, produced by Galina Tomov & Christiane Ciupka at Locomotion Films.
Executive producer: Denis Martel TV premiere: SRC, Bravo!, ArTV The intuitive talents of an artist and a mathematician breaking the Infinity Barrier. In 1956 Dutch artist Maurits C. Escher challenged the laws of perspective with Print Gallery, and found himself trapped behind an impossible barrier… His uncompleted master-piece quickly became the most puzzling enigma of Modern Art. Half a century later, mathematician Hendrik Lenstra took everyone by surprise by drawing a bridge between the intuition of the artist and his own, shattering the Infinity Barrier! |