Bitter Films

A hilarious collection of animated television commercials that were rejected because of their creator's failing grip on sanity.

Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche.

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

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.

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

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

Evolution on Earth over the course of a billion years.

A balloon wraps itself around a young child's hand, bringing him higher and higher, much to the child's delight, but a sinister truth begins to unravel.

A life, seen through paper.

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

Lily and Jim are interviewed about their disastrous blind date.

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

Dark shadows are cast over Bill's recovery.

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.

After a wisdom tooth operation, a man decides to let his friend pull out one of the stitches.

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

In this clever satire of toxic men, a cartoon pickup artist is violently torn apart by the women he targets, seen only through his own one-sided, ridiculously misogynistic point of view. 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.

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