In the spring of 1999, the Family Learning Channel commissioned animator Don Hertzfeldt to produce promotional segments for their network. The cartoons were completed in five weeks. The Family Learning Channel REJECTED all of them upon review, and they were never aired… Nominated for Oscar in 2001, another 16 wins.

An animator’s commissioned works, rejected because of their increasingly absurd and violent tone, eventually find their entire animated world collapsing in upon itself..