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A Don Hertzfeldt Special Program: Me + It’s Such A Beautiful Day
September 1, 2024 @ 6:15 pm – 7:30 pm EDT
It’s Such a Beautiful Day returns to the big screen (our IMAX, no less!) for the first time since 2012, paired with Hertzfeldt’s all-new 22 minute musical odyssey, ME
Dark and troubling events force Bill to reckon with the meaning of his life.
In 2012, Don Hertzfeldt seamlessly edited his groundbreaking short film trilogy about a troubled man named Bill into a new animated feature film. Six years in the making, the completed picture was captured entirely in-camera on a 35mm rostrum animation stand. Built in the 1940s and used by Hertzfeldt on every project since 1999, it was one of the last surviving cameras of its kind still operating in the world, indispensable in the creation of the story’s unique visual effects and images. IT’S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY painstakingly blends traditional hand-drawn animation, experimental optical effects, trick photography, and new digital hybrids printed out one frame at a time.
The film’s signature “split screen” effect was achieved by photographing the animation through tiny holes placed beneath the camera lens, with each element in the film frame individually composited through careful multiple exposures.
2012, 2024 | 84 mins (total program) | US | Color, B&W | Animation, Comedy, Art
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