Tag: Don Hertzfeldt
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Ah, L’Amour (1995) is Don Hertzfeldt’s first 16mm student animated short film, completed at the age of 18 at UC Santa Barbara. Though produced for a beginning film class and never meant to be exhibited, the short had a long life at animation festivals, launching Hertzfeldt into cult status at a young age. In 1998, the short won the Grand Prize Award for “World’s Funniest Cartoon” from the HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival.
The cartoon is a satire of toxic men. In it, a pickup artist is violently torn apart by the women he targets, viewed only through his own one-sided, ridiculously misogynistic point of view. Hertzfeldt plays the part of a mentally unwell animator who’s losing his grip on his sanity while animating, an idea he’d later revisit in other early “meta” shorts Genre and Rejected.
The soundtrack is acoustic guitar music, performed by Hertzfeldt on a boom box in his dorm room.
Lily and Jim is Hertzfeldt’s third film from his time as a student at UC Santa Barbara for which he animated over 10,000 drawings. The short film has received 25 film festival awards.
A short animated film by Don Hertzfeldt, Rejected was nominated for a 2001 Academy Award. It received 27 awards from film festivals around the world and in 2004 was ranked by the Internet Movie Database as the 3rd best short film of all time.