World of Tomorrow

Don Hertzfeld

2015

USA

16’30”

2D Computer animation, with experimental techniques

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

From Curators

“World of Tomorrow” tells a story about a little girl accepting the invitation from herself in the future and then going into the future world through the time travel with digital consciousness,. The work discusses how people’s behavior, emotion and relationship have changed in the digitized world, with repeats of upload and download cycle that may retained forever.

Don Hertzfeld

Artist Introduction

Don Hertzfeldt is an Oscar-nominated American independent filmmaker whose animated films include It's “Such a Beautiful Day”, “The Meaning of Life”, “Billy's Balloon”, and “Rejected”. His work has played around the world, receiving over 200 awards, and recently appeared in a special guest appearance on “The Simpsons”. Seven 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.