The Happy Film Page #3

Synopsis: Austrian designer Stefan Sagmeister is doing well. He lives in New York, the city of his dreams, and he has success in his work, designing album covers for the Rolling Stones, Jay-Z and the Talking Heads. But in the back of his mind he suspects there must be something more. He decides to turn himself into a design project. Can he redesign his personality to become a better person? Is it possible to train his mind to get happier? He pursues 3 controlled experiments of meditation, therapy, and drugs, grading himself along the way. But real life creeps in and confounds the process: art, sex, love, and death prove impossible to disentangle. His unique designs and painfully personal experiences mark a journey that travels closer to himself than ever intended.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Hillman Curtis (co-director), Ben Nabors (co-director), Stefan Sagmeister (co-director)
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Year:
2016
93 min
542 Views


allowed to move,

Break, lecture,

break, meditation.

At 6:
00 in the morning, already

My back hurts like hell.

And at 8:
00,

oh, my god,

The pain is totally nuts.

- This is the way

to get happier.

May all beings

be happy.

May all beings

be happy.

May all beings

be happy.

Meditation, stop.

One, two, three, four.

- but the only pleasure

That I experience now

Comes from the time

When the pain goes away.

- one by one,

When you're calm.

may all beings

Be happy.

F***.

five, six, seven, eight.

- I'm surrounded by

a surprisingly mixed group.

A bunch of jakarta housewives,

A fancy hippie.

An aging surfer dude.

An architect, designer type.

And various women between

the age of 25 and 45

At various degrees

of being lost.

Everybody looks

zombie-like and dour.

If I'm supposed

to get happy here,

Current company does not

Suggest a successful outcome.

good morning, everybody.

We're going

to continue our practice

To make our

harmonious mind appear.

- crazy pain,

All night long.

I'm totally ready to give up.

seven, eight, nine, ten.

One, two, three, four, five.

just ran into an

old student of mine and

She's joining me and her

friend for dinner later on.

So... Lovely.

Well after failing for awhile,

I am now opening

Up to new things.

It does feel like lots

Of stuff is possible.

And I think even

tanya is impressed.

I'm bored.

Sunday and I'm bored.

I was reading all afternoon

And I will do a little bit

of work now,

Because I don't know, really,

What else I should do.

My mom, whom I loved dearly,

Died this year.

She used to work

in a store all her life,

And going up to people,

Making that first step

really became easy

As she got totally used to it.

I, myself, could still get

much, much better at that.

This, this line and this

line, same distance?

"t" here.

I'm extremely anxious

about this dance piece.

Choreographing dancers

Is fairly far away

From straightforward

graphic design.

The "e" moves back.

It's always the same.

If I've done it before,

I get bored.

If I haven't done it

before, I get anxious.

A couple of years ago,

hillman had made a

Short portrait of me.

And I immediately thought,

I could be friends

with this guy.

- So, I would choose the

letters where it made sense.

Do you know what I mean?

- yeah.

Unlike me, he's calm and gentle.

We make a good team.

M, yes!

A, yes!

K, yes!

E, no!

What a crazy weekend.

I spent it with tanya in

A hotel down south

in alila uluwatu.

And I mean, of course, yeah,

It can't be much better.

What a lovely, lovely, lovely,

Lovely, lovely girl she is.

Sadly, she doesn't

want to be filmed.

She thinks I share too much

Private stuff with everybody.

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