Don Hertzfeldt
- Directing
- August 1, 1976 · Fremont, California, USA
Biography
Don Hertzfeldt is a two-time Academy Award nominee whose animated films include "It's Such a Beautiful Day", the "World of Tomorrow" series, "Paper Trail", "ME", "The Meaning of Life", "On Memory", "Billy's Balloon", and "Rejected". His work has played around the world, received hundreds of awards, and in 2014 made a special appearance on "The Simpsons". 2020, GQ Magazine described his work as "simultaneously tragic and hilarious and philosophical and crude and deeply sad and fatalist and yet stubbornly, resolutely hopeful." The Austrian Film Museum has described his work as "films of a sort that never really existed before."
Known for
Filmography
- Paper Trail · Director, Editing
- Animation Mixtape · Producer, Director
- ME · Director, Writer
- On Memory · Self, Writer
- World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime · Cinematography, Director
- Intro · Self, Director
- World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts · Director, Writer
- The Devil's Candy · Art Designer
- World of Tomorrow · Director, Writer
- It's Such a Beautiful Day · Narrator (Voice), Sound Editor
- It's Such a Beautiful Day · Narrator (Voice), Director
- Slacker 2011 · TV Backpacker
- Wisdom Teeth · Stanilus (Voice), Director
- I Am So Proud of You · Narrator (Voice), Director
- The Animation Show, Volume 3 · Producer
- Everything Will Be OK · Narrator (Voice), Writer
- The Animation Show, Volume 2 · Producer
- The Meaning of Life · Voice, Director
- Hair High · Dill (Voice)
- The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show · Fluffy Thing #2 (Voice), Director
- The Animation Show, Volume 1 · Director
- Rejected · Spoon Guy / Banana / Queen of France (Voice), Director
- Billy's Balloon · Writer, Director
- Lily and Jim · Director, Writer
- Genre · Writer, Director
- Ah, l'Amour · Writer, Director
- The Simpsons · Future Bart / Future Lisa / Future Marge (Voice), Animation
- Antarctica · Director, Writer