Don Hertzfeldt Movies

A struggling painter is possessed by satanic forces after he and his young family move into their dream home in rural Texas.

Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche.

Bill Plympton's gothic '50s high-school comedy about a love-triangle that goes terribly wrong. Two murdered teens return from the grave, then go to their prom to get revenge.

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

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

Dark and troubling events force Bill to reckon with the meaning of his life.

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

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

Richard Linklater's SLACKER inspired a generation of American filmmakers by exploring the subculture of Austin, Texas in a loose narrative with a tapestry of quirky characters. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of that iconic movie, 24 of Austin's top filmmakers banded together to update SLACKER...

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

A hidden memory sends David across the far reaches of time and space to solve a deadly mystery involving his time-traveling future selves.

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...

In Don Hertzfeldt's second student film, a hapless cartoon character is dragged through a spectrum of cinematic situations by his frustrated animator.

A "trilogy" of surreal and funny cartoons, produced exclusively to book-end the first year of The Animation Show's travelling theatrical tour.

Dark shadows are cast over Bill's recovery.

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

Evolution on Earth over the course of a billion years.

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

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.

Lily and Jim are interviewed about their disastrous blind date.