Your Monday Upper: My Spoon is Too Big!
I first saw Don Hertzfeldt's short film "Rejected" as part of Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation Festival when I was 18 and quickly became obsessed. Anyone familiar with the phrase "I am a banana" can stop reading here- we're in the same club. Everyone else should check out this video. Its a little on the longer side (9 minutes, sorry) but so worth it. The basic premise is that an animator had his cartoon promos rejected by a cable channel and goes insane as a result. Its like all those non-sequitur Adult Swim cartoons, but watchable.
I sympathize with this cartoon, as I recently had an idea for a regular TNG feature rejected by the rest of the staff. It was supposed to be a hidden talent round-up called "Look What I Can Do," but it was scrapped after my famous "feed the starfish" trick made Ben throw up.
2 comments:
Wow. Is 9 minutes really "a little bit on the longer side?" I guess I have a longer attention span than most.
Thanks for sharing that -- I especially enjoyed the end, when the world collapses around the characters and all that is left is the soul-crushing darkness of ultimate despair. It reminds me of the last few chapters of Danielewski's "House of Leaves" in the way that the form of the piece ultimately destroys the characters within it. Tres, tres meta, darling.
Brilliant. Absolutely Brilliant.
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