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This short and very informative documentary looks critically at the controversial Peters projection – a map that requires you to question your worldview, if not change it. The film gives the viewer an overview of the history of the Peters projection and uses just enough biographical information about Arno Peters to inform the viewer how such a map can be inspired by such a man. In Arno Peters’ own voice, the purpose and importance of the equal-area map is explained, putting a very human face to the reasons cartographers should be careful and judicious when choosing map projections.
The documentary makers don’t canonize Arno Peters for his revolutionary map but give him due credit for being a driving force in informing the intelligentsia about the need for equal-area projections’ essential place as a first step by which equal rights may be envisioned – and hopefully championed.
The film has very high production quality and is expertly narrated. As a cartography instructor at a university I plan to show this film to all my students for its historical importance and, most importantly, because it is a film that asks questions rather than gives answers, thereby putting the onus of judgment onto the student or audience.
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