World of Tomorrow
“The thing about the present is that you only appreciate it when it is the past.” This is the advice little Emily gets from her clone, who contacts her from 227 years in the future to show her everything that awaits her in her lifetime, including where she might stumble.
- USA
- 2015, 17 min
- Director: Don Hertzfeldt
- Screenplay: Don Hertzfeldt
- Producer: Don Hertzfeldt
- Production: Bitter Films
Don Hertzfeldt
Don Hertzfeldt is an independent filmmaker, animator, and writer born in the United States. His previous films have won numerous awards all over the world. His animated short film Rejected was nominated for an Oscar in 2001, and in 2014 another film of his, It’s Such a Beautiful Day, placed sixteenth in Time Out New York magazine’s “100 Best Animated Movies Ever Made.” World of Tomorrow (2015) won the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.