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.