The Don Hertzfeldt Experience
Friday, August 5th. Pre-Show @ 7PM. Movie Starts @ 8PM. Happy Hour Food & Drink Specials during the Pre-Show. $8 Admission. Not Rated | Total Showtime: 2hr. 30min. All Ages Tonight's main features will contain the first 3 episodes from the World of Tomorrow series, followed by It's Such a Beautiful Day. Don Hertzfeldt is a two-time Academy Award nominated American independent filmmaker whose animated films include It's Such a Beautiful Day, the World of Tomorrow series, and Rejected. His work has played around the world, receiving over 250 awards, and in 2014 made a special guest appearance on The Simpsons. Eight of his films have screened in competition at the Sundance Film Festival, where he is the only filmmaker to have won the overall Grand Jury Prize for Short Film twice. World of Tomorrow (2015 - 2022) A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future. The series features the voice of Julia Pott, frequently alongside Hertzfeldt's four-year-old niece Winona Mae, who was recorded while drawing and playing. Her spontaneous, natural vocal reactions and questions were then edited into the story to create her character. The first film was nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 2015 Academy Awards. In 2020, Indiewire called it "one of the greatest short films in the history of movies." Of the "dreamy, beloved" ongoing series, The Film Stage noted, "Hertzfeldt has crafted what might be the crowning achievement of modern science fiction." It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) Dark and troubling events force Bill to reckon with the meaning of his life. It's Such a Beautiful Day is an hour-long feature compilation of three shorts by animator Don Hertzfeldt. "There is a moment in each installment of Don Hertzfeldt's masterful trilogy of animated shorts where you feel something in your chest. It's an unmistakably cardiac event, the kind that great art can elicit when something profound and undeniably true is conveyed about the human condition. That's when you say to yourself: are stick figures supposed to make me feel this way? In the hands of a master, yes. And Hertzfeldt is to stick figures what Franz Liszt was to planks of ebony and ivory and what Ted Williams was to a stick of white ash: someone so transcendentally expert that to describe what they do in literal terms is borderline demeaning." - Steven Pate, The Chicagoist Don't miss our custom curated pre-show. Tonight's pre-show will be packed with Don Hertzfeldt animations and house-made trailers. Retro-gaming available in the lobby.
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