Bitter Films: Totally Ace
Film // Jim // 5th February 2007
As part of the weekends Flatpack festival I went to the Sunday night screening of Science of Sleep (which was well worth going to) and was lucky enough to also catch Everything Will Be OK, a short animated film by Don Hertzfeldt. This was 17 minutes of a stickman called Bill pondering the seeming meaningless of his life as he gradually sinks into somekind of mental illness. It was great; quirky and funny at the start before becoming disquieting and disturbing (but still a bit funny) as it progressed.
Knowing nothing about Don Hertzfeldt or his company Bitter Films, I got on the internet at work today and had a bit of a dig round. Looks like Everything Will Be OK could be up for an Oscar. You can get hold of a load of Don's films via a DVD that you can order from the Bitter films web site. If you want a taster, check out Rejected (which you can watch here although it is a touch shonky), an earlier film documenting the problems he encountered while trying to fulfill some commercial commissions and the chaos that his breakdown brought upon his creations. Funny, technically brilliant and very pointed indeed.
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