“Computer Chess” may be the strangest — and most wondrous — film of the year so far, and its director, Andrew Bujalski, doesn’t think it has much to do with chess. The film takes place at an ...

Staircases that lead to an infinite loop, divisions of plane into imaginative space, and hands that draw themselves—these are some of the images we associate with M.C. Escher. His inventive and ...