The Happy Film

Moviecut—The Happy Film

This is by far the most creative film I have seen at a film festival. Pay attention to the amazing attention to detail!This is a great documentary based on real life experiences. It gets you to think deeply about your own life, and the emotions that we experience on a daily basis.It has a great story line that has you eager to learn the outcome. It is a brilliant film filled with emotion,humour,and beautiful scenery! The film flows through Stefan's story seamlessly.I am so pleased that I saw this film. It is a life changer!I want to see it again to rediscover the creativity that bursts through continually throughout the film.The title is simple but says exactly what the film is about.

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.)

Was following the making since the Happy Show Start. Got a chance to see at a local festival. Documenting Sagmeister's (systematic) experiment aimed at evaluating different ways of achieving happiness, mixed with real-life experiences. Honest, entertaining and inspirational.

We really liked this happy film: Entertaining, thoughtful, inspiring. It has everything a good film needs: Big questions (about the meaning of life, about the meaning of death, about the meaning of sex and drugs and music), a compassionate hero an his quest story with surprising, funny and beautiful moments. Thank you!

Stefan Sagmeister didn't disappoint with this visually pleasing documentary that has been highly anticipated since I heard of the announcement on Kickstarter in 2011. Being a big Sagmeister fan myself, I've come to know that his ideas are often so brilliant and out of the ordinary and with the film it was consistent and evoked so many emotions. He's so candid with life -- with the raw unfiltered thoughts throughout his journey and experiment, to the hilarious behind the scene snippets behind his life mantras. I never thought I could relate to his story, but I ended up finding a bit of comfort and understanding through his personal experiences, especially when he touched upon love and relationships over the years. I'm definitely eager to see this film again.

I saw The Happy Film screening in New York this week and really enjoyed the film. It didn't make me happier but it's nice to know that nobody really has this stuff figured out. It is an in depth narrative into an incredibly talented graphic designer's life, which is dark at times and interesting all at once. There is an honesty and vulnerability that keeps you connected while you weave through beautiful designs that spell out Stefan's life lessons. The overall thread in the story is his happiness experiments where he looks to try to find his own happiness. The tests are so strange that you can't help but wonder what is going to happen. The narrative which started as a 'graphic design experiment' is very personal with a great balance of sad and hilarious moments as you get the know this funny tall man very well in this movie. I still can't get it out of my head as it left me with a lot of questions regarding my own happiness and where that comes from. So if you're looking for some laughs, inspiration, some intrigue and some personal reflection - I highly recommend.

Hello Stefan, I have seen a few days ago in the Metro-cinema in Bregenz together with my wife "The Happy Film". My wife and my two grown sons also saw the exhibition (I unfortunately not :-( .. so I wanted to see the film absolutely. This was just terrific, brave (!), emotional, often to laugh, touching, very personal - just real! And this cornucopia of creativity just struck me from the chair. I run a printing shop and I am constantly engaged in communication, typography and creative ideas - so I liked the implementation. But, of course, you have dealt very well with the theme of the topics - it's all about "happiness". My wife and I always talk about the film and have recommended this to our two guys and our friends - simply because this is so worth seeing. Kind regards from the "Ländle" - keep it up! Karl Heinz

Hello, This movie was so well done, with such beauty and cleverness. A true outlook on a topic. Well worth the time and or money to see. I highly recommend.

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.