Bitter Films

Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche.

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

The concluding chapter of Don Hertzfeldt's animated trilogy of shorts about a man named Bill and his wavering mental state.

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

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

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

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.

Dark shadows are cast over Bill's recovery.

Lily and Jim are interviewed about their disastrous blind date.

Evolution on Earth over the course of a billion years.

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

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 collection of surreal and funny cartoons, produced exclusively to book-end the first year of The Animation Show's traveling theatrical tour.

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

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

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

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.