here's a new indiewire interview that is mostly true
to celebrate the 5 year anniversary of EVERYTHING WILL BE OK, we're senselessly giving away free DVDs of the movie with any purchase of anything:
give extra copies to friends. plant them in the ground and build them miniature beds. what will you name them? enter special coupon code EVERYTHINGWILLBEOK:
a limited number of these signed wisdom teeth prints are now available
the online shop tells us they've uncovered a lost stash of the very out-of-print REJECTED DVD single from 2001. these have the deleted scene on them that we didnt release elsewhere, and pretty great packaging. otherwise totally unremarkable.
here's a nice article from last year's san francisco event
the everything will be okROCKET shirts are now available in black. because there are some of us who will only wear black:
the i am so proud of you snow globes sold out. we were going to make one more batch of them but the last ones we could find were delivered to us cracked, smashed and leaking. opening the box was like the saddest christmas ever.
an old interview with don for AFI has been posted
here.
two other surprisingly interesting interviews have been posted in here.
these I AM SO PROUD OF YOU shirts are now in the shop and look pretty great:
the new dvds are here. they sort of squirt when you squeeze them, like weird little sea creatures
:::NEW 2012 TOURDATES ANNOUNCED : PLEASE SEE BELOW : ADDITIONAL DATES TBA :
::: NOT TO MENTION: It's such a beautiful day has won the Yoram Gross Award for Best Animation at Flickerfest, Australia. The film has also
won both the Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the Sommets du cinema d'animation in Montreal.
........"Cult animator and Academy Award nominee Don Hertzfeldt (Rejected, Billy's Balloon, the Meaning of Life) is hitting the road for a rare series of events! A selection of Don's classic animated shorts will return to the big screen, culminating in the exclusive regional premiere of his newest film, It's such a beautiful day: the third and final chapter in a trilogy about a mysterious man named Bill.
Chapter One, Everything will be OK, won the Sundance Film Festival's Jury Award in Short Filmmaking and was named by many critics as one of the "best films of 2007". Chapter Two, I am so proud of you, received twenty-seven awards and was described by the San Francisco International Film Festival as, "[his] best yet... even the Hertzfeldt faithful may be too stunned to laugh."
Nearly two years in the making, the 23-minute It's such a beautiful day is Don's longest, and most ambitious, piece to date: blending traditional animation, experimental optical effects, trick photography, and new digital hyrbids printed out one frame at a time, the movie was captured entirely on an antique 35mm animation stand, one of the last operating cameras of its kind left in America.
The entire animated trilogy will be screened together for the first time via new 35mm prints, immediately followed by a live on-stage interview and audience chat with Don Hertzfeldt"........
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:: Advance tickets for Austin are sold out ::
:: Advance tickets for Houston are available here ::
:: Advance tickets for Santa Barbara are available here ::
:: Advance tickets for Los Angeles are sold out ::
:: Advance tickets for San Francisco are sold out ::
:: Advance tickets for Denver are sold out ::
:::: Everything will be OK is now online for a little while, in disappointing Youtubey quality. Share it with people you like::
:::: This version of REJECTED with director text commentary is one of many strange special features from the BITTER FILMS VOLUME 1 DVD collection::
:::: Here is Wisdom Teeth in HD. Showtime will be broadcasting the short for a little while longer before chaining it up in a box and throwing it into the sea. They are not aware however that it can only be destroyed with one of the seven daggers of Megiddo.
Please do not point at eyes or face
Wisdom Teeth was first spotted as a surprise
conclusion to the last three Evening with Don Hertzfeldt touring programs in Ottawa + Montreal in October 2009. In January 2010
it drunkenly revealed itself at the Sundance Film Festival, punched a woman in the mouth, and ran off into the snow without pants. It next showed up at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, where it stumbled into the room cursing God with vodka on its breath. The short allegedly made a lewd gesture before disappearing again in a cloud of horrible ants.
::::Watching Grass Grow is another exclusive feature from the Volume 1 DVD, following Don in timelapse as he animates The Meaning of Life over the course of a few years. Also included here are original video pencil tests from the short:
:::: Meanwhile, The Meaning of Life is available for viewing for a limited time over at MUBI:
::::Wisdom Teeth inexplicably managed to win a Special Jury Mention from the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal. Meanwhile, I am so proud of you and Everything will be OK have been jointly awarded "Best Picture" at the MUMIA Animation Festival in Brazil.
:::: In April of last year, Don received the San Francisco International Film Festival's "Persistence of Vision" Lifetime Achievement Award and showed some movies, and a fantastic time was had by all. Previous recipients of the award include Errol Morris, Faith Hubley, and Jan Svankmajer. In 40 years, following the crushing disappointment of the rest of his life, he will be getting a sheepish phone call from the festival asking if maybe they could have it back.
::::: I AM SO PROUD OF YOU IS ON DVD :::::
This limited edition DVD features a 148 page production archive of deleted scenes, notes, sketches, bad ideas, wishful thinking, regrets, and distant memories; an alternate, narration-free version of the film; a curious booklet; and a dozen blurry strange photos from the upcoming Chapter 3:
...I am so proud of you has won its 26th and 27th awards, with a Special Award for "Original and exciting visual techniques" at Anifest in Zagreb and Best Short Film at the Animage Festival in Brazil. Other awards include a Special Mention at the International Film Festival Etiuda & Anima in Krakow,
a Special Jury Prize for "original form and human warmth" at the Message to Man Film Festival in Russia,
Best Picture and Best Screenplay from the Fargo Film Festival, the Grand Jury Prize at the Florida Film Festival,
Best Animated Film at Fantastic Fest in Austin,
Best Film at Curta Cinema Rio de Janeiro, and the Golden Starfish from the Hamptons International Film Festival.
Meanwhile,
Everything will be OK has won its 40th award, the Special Jury Prize from Italy's Lucca Animation Festival!
this limited edition DVD "single" features a restored and remastered high definition film transfer, with a brand new 100+ page archival area of deleted scenes, sketches, production notes, alternate takes, abandoned ideas, embarrassing asides,
a strange booklet, an interesting hidden thing, and all the usual nonsense.....
::current events:: updated february 2 2012
this limited edition DVD "single" features a restored and remastered high definition film transfer, with a brand new 100+ page archival area of deleted scenes, sketches, production notes, alternate takes, abandoned ideas, embarrassing asides,
a strange booklet, an interesting hidden thing, and all the usual nonsense.....
