Thanks for the memories!

Sadly Over-hyped

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Better Late Then Never

it's been a month since i went to 'The Happy Film' screening in LA. and i still carry the feeling of the film around as the kind of memory of precious time spent with your dear friends. it's such a profoundly human experience filled with fun, love, sadness and crazy adventures that Sagmeister has generously shared with us. it's also a fascinating exploration of the vocabulary to express the complex layers of happiness, through words and the fluent imagery. of course, being one of the most daring graphic designers of our time helps - Sagmeister goes free flying with supporting his pursuit of happiness in visual terms. it's a feast for the lovers of design! someone said that anticipation of happiness is the height of the feeling itself - The Happy Film does just that and more. highly recommended to be seen in a cinema with people around you!

I saw the film @ the Victoria Film Festival and loved it. It is definitely quirky, but also educational and inspiring. Graphic artist Stefan Stagmeister undertakes a piece of first-person research to find out what makes him, and perhaps by extension us, happy. He consults experts and leads us through each step in the process looking into three possible routes to happiness, only to discover yet another. As interesting as that is, his exceptionally creative graphic eye provides truly amazing action illustrations to make his points. I hope it gets a wide distribution! (I also loved the musical score by the Canadian band Siskiyou.)

Just a half an hour ago I finished watching the film and I feel deeply touched. I am myself a graphic designer and I believe people like Stefan are keeping our profession considered as art. Existential questions and thoughts about happiness are a big part of my life for the past few years. They are leading me in many dilemmas through my life even though I don't have answers for them. I enjoyed the graphics of this movie so much it made me envy them. It's not common to share such intimacy with an audience in a documentary but in the film it felt natural and normal. I got so touched by this movie I felt like I'm taking part of it. Thank you.

This was the most authentic, human, openly honest, and beautiful thing I've seen in a long while. So naked, so personal, yet so pertinent that it hurt, but in the best way possible. It made me feel, made me think, made me cry, made me laugh. It made me feel alive. It made me feel connected. It was like seeing the sun rise early in the morning, when the rest of the world seems to be asleep. Like witnessing something so rare, it has to be sacred. It's an incredibly human, humane, and fearless deconstruction of Sagmeister's life in front of the rest of the world, and a reminder of how beautiful, despite everything, life is to begin with. Please find a way to see it if you haven't done so already.