# animate! › Films › Flat Earth by Thomson & Craighead

Canonical: https://animate.org.uk/films/flatearth/

Discovery terms: 2000s animation, 3d cgi, satellite imagery, internet, globalisation, online voices, documentary, filmmaker, artist

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Archive status: restored in 2026; historical calls, deadlines and services are closed.

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**Flat Earth** a film by Thomson & Craighead

[Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead](https://thomson-craighead.net)

in production

![Flat Earth, still: pre-production concept still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/flatearth01.jpg)

pre-production concept still

### a film by Thomson & Craighead in collaboration with Steve Rushton

### animate! synopsis

A desktop expedition and documentary, woven from satellite imagery found online to make an extraordinary five-minute journey around the world, encountering the splintered voices of bloggers which interleave and overlap as if to form a single conversation.

### key credits

**director**
Thomson & Craighead

**writer**
Steve Rushton

**Flat Earth** film, stills and other materials © Thomson & Craighead 2006