World of Tomorrow

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Movie
Original title World of Tomorrow
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2015
length 17 minutes
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Director Don Hertzfeldt
script Don Hertzfeldt
production Don Hertzfeldt
camera Don Hertzfeldt
cut Don Hertzfeldt
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World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts

World of Tomorrow is an American animation film directed by Don Hertzfeldt in 2015. The film, which is Don Hertzfeldt's first digital animation film, was designed in a minimalist “ stick figure” style. The world premiere was on January 22nd, 2015 at the Sundance Film Festival , where it also received the Grand Prize for best animated short film. He was awarded a total of 34 prizes at other film festivals around the world. A second part was published in 2017 under the title World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts .

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The 4-year-old Emily  - later called Emily Prime (German about Original Emily ) in the film - is being promoted by her third generation clone , also named Emily , to the present 227 years in the future. The clone technology by cultivating the cloned body and transferring the memories to the clone makes people de facto immortal, but has the disadvantage that the clones are largely deprived of emotion and empathy through degeneration .

The clone Emily tries to familiarize the young Emily Prime with the many achievements of her future - but does not realize that her childlike naivete is unable to understand the complicated conversations with her and her new surroundings. Emily herself leads an uneventful life. For years she has been monitoring isolated robots on different planets. In her loneliness she falls in love with objects, first with a stone, later with a gas pump.

After years of "relationship" with an extraterrestrial, irrational creature named Simon, she realizes that only other people can fill the void in her life. She can be transported back to earth and falls in love with David, a clone of an original from 400 years ago, the first clone of which she once saw in a museum as a child. David himself shows even fewer human emotions than Emily. After David's sudden death, Emily feels grief for the first time in her life. Emily Prime realizes this and finds that Emily misses David. Emily herself says that she “has neither the mental nor the emotional capacity to process the loss”.

Finally, Emily explains to her “great grandmother” that in 60 days a meteor will destroy the earth. Confronted with her death, Emily tries to extract a lost memory from Emily Prime with a novel invention. This shows Emily's "real mother" with Emily Prime on a walk. Emily advises Emily Prime to seize every moment of her life - knowing full well that she herself received this advice from the future. Emily Prime is then sent back to her presence, where she continues to play without understanding what happened to her.

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  1. ↑ 43rd Annual Annie Awards. In: annieawards.org. Association Internationale du film d'animation , February 7, 2016, accessed on February 7, 2016 (English).
  2. ↑ Ethan Sacks: Oscars 2016 nominations: See the full list of Academy Award nominees. In: nydailynews.com , Daily News , January 14, 2016, accessed February 7, 2016.