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prokopetz · 9 months

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These are opposite poles of an extremely specific spectrum.

#media #movie #television #memes #semiotics #spoons #rejected #don hertzfeldt #santa clarita diet #food mention

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sacredwhores · 2 months

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Don Hertzfeldt - It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)

#film #don hertzfeldt #it's such a beautiful day #2012

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animatejournal · 11 months

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Rejected | Director: Don Hertzfeldt | USA, 2000

#Don Hertzfeldt #Rejected #Animation #Indie Animation #Surreal #Advertising #Surrealist #Video #Indie Film

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cheddar-baby · 5 months

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Forever thinking about the art piece in Don Hertzfeldt's short film World of Tomorrow where a clone of a child is put into a tube in a gallery and you watch him age in real time until he eventually dies at the age of 72 then the exhibit is quietly removed without any notice.

#don hertzfeldt #i think his work isnt take so seriously because hes the spoon too big meme guy #but god the movies and shorts he has been putting out all have stuck with me for years #his stories are gorgeous and rich and deeply meaningful and heartbreaking #but i think people get put off by the visual style being intentionally simple stick figure type characters #he uses it masterfully though and the films arent held back by it at all and are incredibly creative visually #his films are stunning visually they have so much texture and life and it all comes together perfectly #i could gush about his work for hours

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haveyouseenthismovie-poll · 8 months

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#movies #polls #it’s such a beautiful day #its such a beautiful day #2010s movies #don hertzfeldt #requested #have you seen this movie poll

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cookinguptales · 7 months

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just saw someone online talking about don hertzfeldt's "rejected" like it was just some "lol so random" youtube video from the early 2000s and like... yeah, it was funny! and I'm sure the randomness and memeability were a lot of what made it go viral. but I'm sad that it's been remembered that way.

like, that short film was about creativity and capitalism and how imagination is stifled and destroyed when it's forced into the box of "marketability", leading to mental anguish on the part of the artist. it's a message that's only become more and more poignant over the years as all art has slowly been reduced to "content" on the internet, particularly youtube, and I still rewatch it regularly.

yes, the fake ads in it were silly and random and violent and weird, but that's because he was purposefully trying to create the least marketable art possible. it has sex and violence and grotesque imagery all wrapped up in a cutesy art style, and it's the exact opposite of the glossy animation you get in marketing. moreover, the point was that the animations became more and more disjointed and "random" and awful as they were forced to exist in a corporate vacuum devoid of any real meaning. that's why the very world they were living in fell apart in the end.

the whole thing! was a very blatant commentary on the damage that commercialization does to art!

and, in a bout of tragic but entirely predictable irony, the art style that he used for "rejected" was immediately stolen, made more palatable for mass consumption, and used for pop tart commercials. it's not so much the death of the author as it is greedy companies shanking the author and then looting their corpse, y'know? it's completely cleaving any marketability from the shambling corpse of their art and leaving the rest for the buzzards.

it's also odd that they listed the short as being something you'd only know about if you hang out on the weird part of the internet because like... y'all know that short was nominated for an oscar, right? that seems about as mainstream as recognition for animated shorts can get. I have literally gone to showings of don hertzfeldt films at major film festivals. he's well known in the animation field.

idk man! I don't have anything against the lol random style of humor from the early days of youtube (I miss it, actually) but to just boil a painfully earnest short film about the devaluing of any creativity that is not palatable to the mass market and the way that artists' souls are slowly killed as they create art solely for corporate interests down to the gifs and memes that emerged from it has me like

man, media literacy really is getting bad these days.

#especially because it really is not subtle in its messaging #it pretty much comes right out and says it #the world of tomorrow is another really lovely one #both the first chapter and the full version #don hertzfeldt #animation

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nornsolon · 5 months

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