Origami as paper's memory?

The trailer above is for Between The Folds, a new feature documentary film presented by PBS's Independent Lens. You can view the whole film on PBS on December 8 (via Boingboing).



See two more clips from the movie here.

Download movie torrent here.

On a related note, here's a great talk by Robert Lang, from TED. Robert Lang is a pioneer of the newest kind of origami -- using math and engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs that are beautiful and, sometimes, very useful.



There's gonna be wuite a bit of origami involved in Sagan's solar sails projects...



There's so much more origami... consider this part 1.