Saturday Morning Cartoon: Rejected
If you haven't seen this cult classic and animated masterpiece of Don Hertzfeld, prepare for something dark, wickedly funny, and ultimately disturbing. In 2000, at the age of 23, Hertzfeldt was nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film for his fifth major film, Rejected. It recounts the artist's declining mental state as his unconventional animated shorts are rejected left and right by their commissioners. The ending sequence does something eerie that makes the sum greater than all of its parts. We hope you like it, it really is a dark little treat.
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30. Nov. 08
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This has always been one of my favorite bits of dark animation. The ending sequence is amazing.
As clever as these pieces are, I would've rejected them, too. The animator clearly had no idea who his clients were. Did he seriously think those companies would want to have these images represent them to the public? If you want to be a provocateur, don't expect mainstream companies to subsidize you.
I hope you are being ironic stokey, cause these companies don't exist and never did.
That was incredible!
Stokey, darling, have you ever even heard of the Family Learning Channel? Or a company named "Johnson & Mills" that makes Bean Lard Mulch? You haven't. Because they don't exist.
This is a completely fictional award-winning animated short film. Hertzfeld has never done any real commission work, let alone ads for any company. If you pay attention to how this whole short film is framed, it's pretty obvious, especially by the end of it. It's a comedy. And even if it's not obvious immediately, the fact that these companies don't actually exist should tip you off, don't you think?
That was fantastic. Thanks for sharing it!
They weren't real, stokey.
Don's website is www.bitterfilms.com, where you can find DVDs of his stuff to support him directly. This man is a genius and the movie's he's made since this one have only gotten better and better :)