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 Read more on BLDGBLOG: www.bldgblog.com/2015/12/grid-corrections/ 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 li-ma.nl/site/ Made possible with the generous support of the Mondrian Fund, Amsterdam

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