Don Hertzfeldt, Everything will be ok, 2006
"I shoot everything on a beautiful old animation camera that was probably built in the late 1940s. Now I guess I'm one of the last people on earth shooting animation traditionally on 35mm film like this, which is a scary because I simply could not have made my last few movies without this camera. Many of the visuals, not just all the experimental shots, would have been impossible to capture digitally and extremely difficult, if not impossible, to simulate in a computer." -Don Hertzfeldt
Herdzfeldt plays out his deep-rooted anxieties, fears and passion in Everything Will Be Ok, which expresses psychological and emotional states in a range of vignettes and abstract designs. The panels represent the sense of multiple impressions and thoughts that simultaneously visit his central character and convey the increasing lack of control and coherence within the character as he tries to maintain his focus and indentity. As in all Hertzfeldt's work, this becomes both a tragic and comic experience. (Re-Imagining-Animation, The Changing face of The moving image, Paul Wells and Johnny Hardstaff)
