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Critically acclaimed animator Don Hertzfeldt is teasing a potentially massive collaboration for his upcoming movie, Me.

Critically acclaimed animator Don Hertzfeldt has announced that his next film will officially be released in 2024, and has a name, Me.

From Soul and Wolfwalkers to The Wolf House and Over the Moon, here are Paste's picks for the best animated movies of 2020.

It’s been over 13 years since James Cameron’s Avatar premiered in theaters. In celebration of the release of its long-awaited sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, we’ve put together a list of 13 of the best sci-fi movies to be released since Cameron’s epic sci-fi opus.

World of Tomorrow. World of Tomorrow is an animated sci-fi short film series from filmmaker Don Hertzfeldt. In the broadest possible terms, it follows a young girl named Emily who, later in life, is cloned many times and has her clones visit her younger self through time travel. The clones tell Emily stories of the future while she reflects on the present and things veer toward the mind-blowingly profound while also being funny, scary, heartfelt, and everything in between. Hertzfeldt not only w...

Twenty-twenty has been a year of disappointment for all of us — except for Jeff Bezos, who gets to make money during a pandemic by exploiting his workers and avoiding taxes. Much has been said about the state of cinema this year and just how much of a disaster releases have been, what with arthouses and multiplexes alike having to close down for the safety of their workers and audiences alike. But this isn’t to say that there hasn’t been a lot of beauty in the world of film amid all the g...

“ Thank you for the days / those endless days, those sacred days you gave me” So begins the classic 1968 single by the Kinks, and Tsai Ming-Liang has an apposite poster tagline here if he needs it. But altering any one element of this immaculate comeback feature––say, putting this very track against the closing credits––would be heresy, especially when it already contains a beautiful use of diegetic music in the theme from Chaplin’s Limelight. I was lucky enough to see his tender...

▶︎ All three episodes of World of Tomorrow are available to rent or buy (via Vimeo) at bitterfilms.com. By now, Don Hertzfeldt’s hapless cartoon stick figures are as distinctive a motif as Mark Rothko’s block panels, e e cummings’s lower-case poetry or Buster Keaton’s stone face; 25 years into his career, the Austin, Texas-based independent is animation’s laureate of mock-naive existential gallows humour and wonder. If his most plain-drawn student movies �...