Rejected

Rejected is an animated short comedy film by Don Hertzfeldt that was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2000. It receivedawards from film festivals around the world.

A fictional frame story explains that Hertzfeldt was commissioned to do animated segments for commercials and television network interstitials, but they were all rejected upon receipt. This is followed by a collection of short, surreal vignettes, presented as a reel of rejected corporate advertising work. According to the frame story, Hertzfeldt was assigned to do commercial segments for the Family Learning Channel, which were rejected after review. He would later do commercials for the Johnson amp Mills Corporation, which was rejected straight. After the Johnson amp Mills Corporation Advertisements, the frame story states that Hertzfeldt began finishing commercials and shorts with his left hand. After the short segments, the story says that the rejected cartoons were running out of control, and later on fell apart. The animator begins to break down mentally and the animated world he created literally begins to like the frame story said fall apart, brutally killing all of his characters in the process.Rejected worldpremiered at the San Diego Comic Convention in 2000. Between hundreds of film festival appearances since then, Rejected also toured North American theaters in 2000, 2001, and 2002 with Spike and Mikes Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation in 2001 and 2002 again with a retrospective touring program of Hertzfeldts and animator Bill Plymptons films called The Don and Bill Show and returned to theaters once again in 2003 and 2004 with Hertzfeldts own the Animation Show tour. ........

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