World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts

Written entirely around candid audio recordings of Hertzfeldt's five year old niece, World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts finds Emily Prime swept into the brain of an incomplete back-up clone of her future self who is on a mission to reboot her broken mind, and what follows is an adventure of the most unbelievable kind: kaleidoscopic imagery meld into mind-bending sequences. Without spoiling any details of the wonders that occur, it's safe to say that Hertzfeldt manages to merge all of this into a coherent and philosophically complex story: a story that speaks to the very nature of us and resonates on a level that's impossible to shake off. (Fantastic Fest)