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World of Tomorrow

  • 20152015
  • GG
  • 17m
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8.1/10
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World of Tomorrow (2015)
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  • Animation
  • Short
  • Comedy

A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.

IMDb RATING
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  • Director
    • Don Hertzfeldt
  • Writer
    • Don Hertzfeldt
  • Stars
    • Julia Pott(voice)
    • Winona Mae(voice)
    • Sara Cushman(voice)
Top credits
  • Director
    • Don Hertzfeldt
  • Writer
    • Don Hertzfeldt
  • Stars
    • Julia Pott(voice)
    • Winona Mae(voice)
    • Sara Cushman(voice)
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    • 32User reviews
    • 46Critic reviews
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 27 wins & 7 nominations total

    Videos1

    World of Tomorrow
    Trailer 1:16
    World of Tomorrow

    Photos14

    Don Hertzfeldt at an event for World of Tomorrow (2015)
    World of Tomorrow (2015)
    Julia Pott in World of Tomorrow (2015)
    Winona Mae in World of Tomorrow (2015)
    Don Hertzfeldt and Julia Pott in World of Tomorrow (2015)
    Don Hertzfeldt in World of Tomorrow (2015)
    Don Hertzfeldt with Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson at Fantastic Fest.
    Don Hertzfeldt wins the Grand Jury Prize at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
    Don Hertzfeldt at the Austrian Film Museum in 2015.
    Don Hertzfeldt and Julia Pott at the 88th annual Academy Awards.
    Don Hertzfeldt at the 2015 SXSW Film Festival.
    Don Hertzfeldt arriving at the 2015 Academy Awards nominees' luncheon.

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    Julia Pott
    • Emilyas Emily
    • (voice)
    Winona Mae
    • Emily Primeas Emily Prime
    • (voice)
    Sara Cushman
    • Simonas Simon
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Don Hertzfeldt
    • Writer
      • Don Hertzfeldt
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    Storyline

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    A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.
    • consciousness
    • surrealism
    • death
    • cloning
    • future
    • 4 more
    • Plot summary
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    • Genres
      • Animation
      • Short
      • Comedy
      • Drama
      • Sci-Fi
    • Certificate
      • G
    • Parents guide

    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Don Hertzfeldt's first digitally animated film. All of his other films were shot on 16mm and 35mm, but he animated this film using a Cintiq tablet, Photoshop and Final Cut Pro. He stated in an interview that he did this because that since the film takes place in the future and that the future looks so abstract, it would be impossible and time consuming to do it right on film.
    • Goofs
      The moon always presents the same face to the Earth and orbits the earth once every 28 days, which means the robots escaping the darkness are circling the moon at that same rate. The "dark side of the moon" is called that only because that is the face which is not visible from Earth, not because it is always in darkness.
    • Quotes

      Emily: That is the thing about the present, Emily Prime. You only appreciate it when it is the past.

    • Connections
      Edited from The 17th Annual Animation Show of Shows (2015)
    • Soundtracks
      Der Rosenkavalier: Waltz Suite
      Composed by Richard Strauss

    User reviews32

    Review
    Top review
    10/10
    it's easy to throw the word around but, this is a work of genius
    If you were to watch Don Hertzfeldt's very funny and still wildly outrageous short Rejected from 2000 and go to his latest film, World of Tomorrow, you would see a monumental level of growth as a filmmaker. This isn't to say that he's moved on from having crudely-drawn characters (by design, and delightfully so as absurdly cute, absurdist what-the-f*** things), and that's part of his style. But if you go from one to another there's a level of sophistication to the presentation that has developed. This also isn't to say that Rejected isn't genius on its own level, but watching World of Tomorrow is simply mind-blowing, shot to shot, and that it presents science fiction concepts with such a dead-pan expression emotionally (the voice of the older 'clone' of Emily is just this way) while expressing such seemingly limitless imagination.

    We're basically taken, from one older adult clone to her much younger counterpart from the past, into what the future will hold. There's (messy) time travel, there's the 'art' of gathering up old memories that drift along like paintings that can be put on the walls, and there's things like people being put into glass containers to be watched by people like in an exhibit throughout their lives. Oh, and there's not the internet but the OUTER-net, where people just drift along through the neural-connections and some, indeed, become lost.

    This is extremely, massively heady stuff, but because of the context of it being between a little girl with notions like "I had lunch today" and "wiggle wiggle wiggle", and that this older clone has gone through a life of her own but with the sort of self-reflection that is very sad, we can relate to it. Or, at least, I could, and it just hit me on a profound level that is hard to describe after one viewing. Information is given out quickly, but nothing is too confusing if one is tapped into its peculiar, visionary science fiction head-space - there's even at one point a poem read by the older Emily about what it means to be a robot (a 'bad' poem, which is acknowledged).

    The level of humor is still there for Hertzfeldt that one sees in Rejected or his Third Dimension shorts or any given work he's done. But something about World of Tomorrow is even more striking than his other work, and it may have to do with how he goes from one concept to the next, each shot and set piece with equal parts crazy veracity and almost simplistic grandeur (those shots of the "rich" people of the future uploading their consciousnesses as black boxes going out into space). This mix of incredibly complex and incredibly simple strikes the perfect balance and yet for the seemingly ridiculous angle of how the older Emily interacts with the younger Emily there's an immediate emotional bond, and even an ending that is incredibly emotional.

    All I can say is if you have netflix, or a few bucks to spare on Vimeo, watch it and see if it affects you. For me, it's among the greatest short films ever made.
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    • Quinoa1984
    • Jan 25, 2016

    Details

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    • Release date
      • March 31, 2015 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Мир будущего
    • Production companies
      • Bitter Film Production
      • Bitter Films
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      17 minutes
    • Color
      • Color

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