World of Tomorrow (2015) poster
2015 · animation · sci-fi

World of Tomorrow

Directed by Don Hertzfeldt17m2015
ElsewhereIMDb8.111kRT100%TMDB7.8360
  • sombre
  • surreal
  • signature
Movie DNA

Sombre, steady, gentle animation / sci-fi, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.

Our read · World of Tomorrow (2015) reads as a sombre, steady, surreal animation · sci-fi entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want seventeen minutes of cosmic sci-fi poetry that hits like a memory from tomorrow.

ends bittersweetit stays with youmeditativegrips from the openattention 5/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightSkip if abstract time-travel monologues and existential dread need a longer runway.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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