Bitter Films

Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche.

A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.

A hidden memory sends David across the far reaches of time and space to solve a deadly mystery involving his time-traveling future selves.

A life, seen through paper.

A musical odyssey about generational trauma and the retreat of humanity into itself.

Emily Prime is swept into the brain of an incomplete backup clone of her future self.

In the spring of 1999, the Family Learning Channel commissioned animator Don Hertzfeldt to produce promotional segments for their network. The cartoons were completed in five weeks. The Family Learning Channel rejected all of them upon review, and they were never aired...

A boy and his balloon.

Dark and troubling events force Bill to reckon with the meaning of his life.

A series of dark and troubling events forces Bill to reckon with the meaning of his life… or lack thereof.

A sprawling look at the evolution of humankind, over the course of a billion years.

In this clever and over-the-top satire of romantic rituals, a cartoon pickup artist is violently torn apart by the women he courts. Don Hertzfeldt's first student film, he plays the part of a mentally unwell animator who's losing his grip within his own movie; an idea he'd later revisit in other early "meta" shorts "Genre" and "Rejected". Despite being produced at the age of 18 and not intended for exhibition, HBO named it "The World's Funniest Cartoon" in 1998.

Nigel does his best to help with his friend's simple request.

Musing on the nature of memory, Don Hertzfeldt recounts stories about a kiss from The King, a floating child in a backyard and a giant foot.

Described as a “big” existential horror animation that Hertzfeldt has been working on for 15 years.

A "trilogy" of surreal and funny cartoons, produced exclusively to book-end the first year of The Animation Show's travelling theatrical tour.

Don Hertzfeldt introduces his new film from the dark underground caverns of a strange planet.

A blind date ends in disaster.

Dark shadows are cast over Bill's recovery.