Best Hertzfeldt
Don Hertzfeldt’s “Everything Will Be OK” presents a poignant animation exploring the anxieties surrounding aging and mortality through the character of Bill. The film depicts Bill’s increasingly obsessive attempts to secure his future against an unspecified threat, reflecting profound disorientation...
Don Hertzfeldt’s “I Am So Proud of You” presents a surreal and poignant narrative through stop-motion animation. The film follows Bill, a man grappling with existential anxieties and his deceased father’s legacy. Its notable use of in-camera techniques and meticulous detail creates an intensely pers...
Billy's Balloon is a 1998 animated short film written, directed, and animated by Don Hertzfeldt. Using sparse line drawings and minimal backgrounds, it begins with a child holding a red balloon before turning the familiar object into the source of escalating, darkly comic violence. The contrast betw...
