Don Hertzfeldt’s newest animated film ME is a 22-minute musical odyssey about trauma, technology and the retreat of humanity into itself. Indiewire has described it as “soul-shaking” and “a triumph.” Returning to theaters for the first time since 2012, IT’S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY has been hailed by critics and audiences alike as one of the best animated films of all time. Originally released as three short films over the course of six years, the picture was captured entirely in-camera on a 35mm rostrum animation stand.
“Hertzfeldt's work is sometimes elusive in its simplicity, but it can be profound as well; with his humor, darkness, philosophical yearning, and insistence on drawing every line himself, he may be the only legitimate successor to Charles M. Schulz.” —J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader “Concentrated and extravagant, lovingly detailed and drifting into epic scale, childishly absurd and exploring existential depths: since 1995, the Californian Hertzfeldt (born 1976) has created films of a sort that never really existed before.” —FilmMuseum
