2012, 61 minutes
plus the short film "ME" (2024, 22 minutes)
Premiere of Don Hertzfeldt's NEW SHORT FILM entitled ME
Dark and troubling events force Bill to reckon with the meaning of his life. In 2012, Don Hertzfeldt seamlessly edited his groundbreaking short film trilogy about a troubled man named Bill into a new animated feature film. Six years in the making, It's Such A Beautiful Day was captured entirely in-camera on a 35mm rostrum animation stand.
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”.
The entire program runs 91 minutes, including a new video message sent from Don.
"One of the great outsider artworks of the modern era, at once sympathetic and shocking, beautiful and horrifying, angry and hilarious, uplifting and almost unbearably sad." - Tom Huddleston, Time Out New York
"With his humor, darkness, philosophical yearning, and insistence on drawing every line himself, [Hertzfeldt] may be the only legitimate successor to Charles M. Schulz. Except for all the money and fame, of course." - J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader
"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, Hollywood Reporter