The main hub for flat Earthers is YouTube. The flat Earth community is very much an online community. A month and a half later, after doing some research, we brought Caroline on board, and we just started shooting. Has anyone done that yet?’ We did some research and found no one had. He said, ‘We should do a documentary about flat Earthers. It was a year ago, on April 26, when he texted me that he had been on Reddit and saw some flat Earth comments. Nick and I have worked on a lot of different documentaries, and we wanted to do our own. What was the genesis of Behind the Curve? This interview has been edited for clarity and length. The movement has exploded in the past few years, leaving scientists and educators scrambling to find a way to stem its popularity.Ĭlark, along with producers Caroline Clark and Nick Andert – also the film’s editor – put the doc together on a shoestring budget in about a year from inception to its debut at this year’s Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.Īhead of its world premiere at Hot Docs ’18, Clark spoke to realscreen about what makes the flat Earth community go round, and what he hopes audiences take away from his film. “It’s not because they’re evil or dumb – it’s what they believe and hold close to their identity.”Įxamining one’s beliefs and the nature of belief itself is a natural reaction upon watching Clark’s Behind the Curve, a film that looks at the recent phenomena of “flat Earthers”, or those who believe, against all evidence, that the Earth is actually flat. “Instead of writing someone off as evil or dumb, I think people need to be more empathetic and try to figure out why this person believes this,” Clark tells realscreen. Clark hopes his latest documentary feature film, Behind the Curve, will inspire audiences after they’ve left the theater to be a little more congenial towards those who hold opinions different from their own.
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