Don Hertzfeldt
Directing
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."
Behind the camera
2026Paper Trail
Director & Writer
2025Animation Mixtape
Director
2024ME
Director & Writer
2021On Memory
Director & Writer
2021World of Tomorrow: The First Three Episodes
Director & Writer
2020World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime
Director & Writer
2017World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts
Director & Writer
2017Intro
Director & Writer
2015World of Tomorrow
Director & Writer
2012It's Such a Beautiful Day
Director & Writer
2011It's Such a Beautiful Day
Director & Writer
2010Wisdom Teeth
Director & Writer
2008I Am So Proud of You
Director & Writer
2006Everything Will Be OK
Director & Writer
2005The Meaning of Life
Director & Writer
2003The Animation Show / Intermission in the Third Dimension / The End of the Show
Director & Writer
2003The Animation Show, Volume 1
Director
2000Rejected
Director & Writer
1998Billy's Balloon
Director & Writer
1997Lily and Jim
Director & Writer
1996Genre
Director & Writer
1995Ah, l'Amour
Director & Writer
Antarctica
Director & Writer