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Don Hertzfeldt

I first saw Don Hertzfeldt’s work in high school, when a friend passed me a laptop playing Ah, L’Amour. “This is hilarious,” he said, and the four of us clustered around the tiny screen. He was right. Ah, L’Amour is bitter and surreal and appeals to everything a middle class American boy loves—violence and bombastic […]

Sisyphus

I don’t remember how the subject of Sisyphus came up, but my dad remembered he watched this animated short 30 years ago, found it and showed it to me, because he knows how much I enjoy such things. Marcell Jankovics directed Sisyphus in 1974, and it earned him a well-deserved Oscar nomination. The short is […]