Watch Don Hertzfeldt's Profoundly Affecting 'World of Tomorrow'

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You may already know Don Hertzfeldt from films like “It’s Such a Beautiful Day,” “The Meaning of Life,” “Billy’s Balloon,” and “Rejected.” His work has played around the world, receiving over 200 awards, and most recently appeared in a special guest appearance on “The Simpsons.” Seven of his films have screened in competition at the Sundance Film Festival, where he is the only filmmaker to have won the overall Grand Jury Prize for Short Film twice.

“World of Tomorrow” tells the story of a young girl named Emily, who meets a clone of herself from the future. According to Splitsider’s Chris Kopcow, “’World Of Tomorrow’ peers into the future to ask big questions about how we live and fail to live, how technology hurts and helps us, how there’s a possibility, however remote, that you may just end up alone and afraid.”

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