One impossible print. One stubborn mathematician. The art world's most beautiful headache.
M.C. Escher is among the most intriguing of artists. In 1956 he challenged the laws of perspective with his graphic Print Gallery and his uncompleted master-piece quickly became the most puzzling enigma of modern art. Fifty years later, can mathematician Hendrik Lenstra complete it? Should he?
Direction
Bergeron lets the puzzle breathe—no rush, all revelation.
Cinematography
Gorgeous scans of Escher's work that'll break your brain gently.
Director
Jean Bergeron
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'hole' in Print Gallery depicts Escher himself—he couldn't solve his own puzzle, so he stepped out of it.
Lenstra's team spent years on this; the solution required elliptic curves, proving Escher accidentally encoded advanced mathematics.
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