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World of Tomorrow
Why this pick
Hertzfeldt’s compact, handmade science-fiction expands the same stick-figure minimalism into an overwhelming meditation on memory, mortality, and cosmic loneliness.
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MOVIE2012 1h 2m USA
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Its unstable, handcrafted animation turns an intimate psychological fable into something funny, frightening, and deeply disorienting, with a similarly bold use of form to express inner collapse.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Don Hertzfeldt
Narrator (voice)