Irrational

Directed by Jake Wichansky

Length: 31:41
Producers: Sebastian Martinez, Shirley Sui, Jake Wichansky, Alexander Zinn
Editor: Jake Wichansky
Cinematographer: Toby Romero
Sound Mixer: Brendan Roche

Claudia Geckle has spent the last decade dreaming of becoming the Pi Memorization World Champion. Despite dedicating her life to memorizing pi, she still cannot remember more than a hundred digits, and at the high-stakes, head-to-head pi memorization tournaments she competes in, she often loses to competitors with far less experience than her.

With the final Youth Pi Memorization Tournament Claudia is eligible for on the horizon, she hires the eccentric Matheson Tottertips to help train her, confident that this will be the one where she'll finally win.

Undergraduate Film & TV

jsw491@nyu.edu

Jake Wichansky is a filmmaker from Randolph, New Jersey who graduated from NYU's film program in 2022. He has directed over twenty short films of which many have screened at multiple film festivals, including the award-winning short films "Sara" and “Fermata”. He recently finished his NYU thesis film “Irrational”. He has also edited several other short films, both narrative and experimental, as well as documentaries.