REJECTED
(2000, Hertzfeldt)
(2000, Hertzfeldt)
"This is fun!"
"..."
"My anus is bleeding!"
"..."
"My anus is bleeding!"
Rejected is a collection of brief shorts allegedly devised as potential ads for both the fictional Family Learning Channel and Johnson & Mills Corporation. Their rejection subsequently drives the animator to progressively lose his sanity, which is in turn reflected in his work and the fictional world within it.
The truth is that creator Don Hertzfeldt has never worked in advertising, but he still uses the format to take jabs at consumerism, among other things, with a tone that goes from surreal and absurd to dark and gruesome. Most of the shorts are hilarious be it by design or just a by product of their "WTF-ery".
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