Screenshot from It's such a beautiful day.

NOTICE

Due to severe weather, Don Hertzfeldt’s transportation to Indianapolis has been canceled. Don will still be speaking with us both before and after the films via Skype.

“Don Hertzfeldt tells stories with stick figures. He brings circles, lines, and dots to life with comedic timing and sadistic, existential emotions”… “Hertzfeldt’s films truly reflect his own mind and hand…no studio, no producers, no computers—he is an auteur of independent animation.”
--Mike Plante, The Believer Magazine

Animator and Academy Award nominee Don Hertzfeldt (Rejected, Billy’s Balloon, The Meaning of Life) makes a stop at IMA on his nationwide tour to present his funny, twisted, stick-figure filled shorts. Hertzfeldt’s body of work has inspired a cult following, attracted to his often dark sense of humor and traditional approaches to animation. The program includes It’s such a beautiful day (2011), the last in a trilogy that also includes Everything will be OK (2006) and I am so proud of you (2008). The trilogy will be screened together for the first time via new 35mm prints, followed by a Skype conversation with Hertzfeldt. It’s such a beautiful day blends traditional animation, experimental optical effects, trick photography, and new digital hybrids printed out one frame at a time and captured entirely on an antique 35mm animation stand, one of the last remaining cameras of its kind in America.