Everyday
2022 · 7m
Genres: animation, coming-of-age, dark comedy
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, melancholic
Eco-anxiety keeps Judith from having fun even at a birthday lunch — she can't help but see darkness in everything.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Eco-anxiety as a coming-of-age anchor is refreshingly bleak, but the premise risks becoming a one-note joke about millennial dread—I'd need to see how the animation actually *subverts* that expectation to call it truly contrarian.
The melancholic tone suggests a lineage from existential animation (think Marjane Satrapi's sensibility), and if the editing rhythm mirrors Judith's spiraling thoughts, this could be a formally elegant dissection of paralysis in the face of systemic collapse.
The entire film likely turns on a single animation choice—whether the visual language isolates Judith through abstraction or lets the world collapse *around* her in concrete detail—and that one decision is probably what separates a competent PSA from something genuinely unsettling.