Synopsis
It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) is an animated feature by Don Hertzfeldt you can watch online on iFILM. Running 62 minutes, the film closes Hertzfeldt's trilogy about Bill — a stick-figure everyman whose mind begins to break down. Memory splinters, perception warps, ordinary moments crack open into something enormous.
Hertzfeldt made the entire film himself, shooting hand-drawn figures on perforated 35mm film stock, layering exposures and narration into something that looks like no other animation. It took the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film and has since become a fixture on film school syllabuses. Voiced in part by Hertzfeldt himself.
The film is funny, sometimes very funny — and then it isn't, and the shift is the whole point. For anyone who's sat with an animated short and wanted it to go somewhere much further, this is it. Stream It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) online on iFILM.
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