World of Tomorrow

MOVIE #1,256 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 11.28.23 There's a lot going on here in these three episodes of Don Hertzfeldt’s beloved avant-garde animated science fiction short film series released in 2015, 2017 and 2020, respectively: meditations on class, memory, the impermanence of time and fleeting nature of life, and what the future might hold for all these things. At times it felt like it was trying a bit too hard to have quotable lines (“now is the envy of all the dead”) but they're still good lines and they work within the context of what this is. Each installment is a little longer and the animation, while very similar aesthetically, just a little bit tighter (with a huge upgrade in the third ep). Episode Two is the weakest and most unsatisfactorily meandering, but Three really ties things together while absolutely leaving the door open for more. I appreciate that these exist.

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World of Tomorrow is an avant-garde animated science fiction short film series written, directed, produced, animated, and edited by Don Hertzfeldt. The series began with World of Tomorrow (2015), which was followed by World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts (2017) and World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime (2020). It was released on October 9, 2020.