IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY + ME

Director: 
Don Hertzfeldt
Featuring: 
Don Hertzfeldt, Sara Cushman
Language: 
English
Production Country: 
USA
Runtime
91 minutes
Rating
Not Rated
Genre
Animation, Drama
Year
2024
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"There aren't many films where the characters and philosophical ideas stay with you for months afterward, but this is one of them." — Trilby Beresford, Nerdist

"A truly moving meditation on identity, family and the meaning of life... Hertzfeldt's magnum opus." — John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter

"One of the great outsider artworks of the modern era." — Tom Huddleston, Time Out New York


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. Built in the 1940s and used by Hertzfeldt on all of hisanimated films since 1999, it was one of the last surviving cameras of its kind still operating in the world, indispensable in creating the story's unique images and visual effects. It's Such a Beautiful Day painstakingly blended traditional hand-drawn animation and experimental optical effects with new digital hybrids, printed out one frame at time and placed under the camera.

Paired with ME, Don Hertzfeldt’s newest animated film, a 22-minute musical odyssey about trauma, technology, and the retreat of humanity into itself.

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