The Conversation is a feature at PopOptiq bringing together Drew Morton and Landon Palmer in a passionate debate about cinema new and old. For their fourteenth piece, they discuss Don Hertzfeldt’s Oscar-nominated animated short, World of Tomorrow (2015). Drew’s Take Don Hertzfeldt’s World of Tomorrow was my favorite film of 2015, followed closely by two other science fiction masterpieces: George …
World of Tomorrow Written and directed by Don Hertzfeldt USA, 2015 “You are alive and living and the envy of all of the dead.” There’s a big irony to this beautiful quote in Don Hertzfeldt’s animated short film World of Tomorrow. It’s delivered from Emily 3.0 to Emily Prime, a clone from the future to a …
World of Tomorrow presents a sophisticated envisioning of a dystopian future, with a through line of existential sorrow, musings on memory, and occasional dark and playful humor. Young child Emily is at play one day when she’s interrupted by a clone of herself, who has traveled back from over 200 years in the future. The clone takes Emily on an existential journey through her own life and the life of Emily’s clones.