Weltschmerzdigest — Flat Earth (Official Video)

The new Weltschmerzdigest’s song “Flat Earth” offers a creative approach to dealing with conspiracy theories and odd ideas. Pavel Doronin, the man behind the project, comments: “Weird conspiracy theories are a part of the modern world. If we have to deal with them, let’s give them an innocuous twist. So, if someone thinks the Earth is flat, okay. It’s flat, and it has a form of a disk, and this disk is spinning and playing my song.” The “Flat Earth” award-winning video extends its sarcastic message by first showing the planet’s flatness as prints of aerial maps and then evolves the sarcasm with origami figures made from these prints. The origami figures picture the Earth’s history milestones from dinosaurs to oil rigs. The video also expands the song lyrics about the disk form of the Earth with a visual representation. “To follow the initial absurd path, I started working on the video with simple questions that have challenged our fundamental understanding of things, like how we see the Earth? And what is fl