Shorts like Genre, Ah, l’amour and the Oscar-nominated Rejected were all filmed using either a 16mm camera he found in college or the 35mm film camera used to animate A Charlie Brown Christmas, and recent, existentialist attempts (The Meaning of Life and Everything Will Be OK) utilize old-fashioned visual effect techniques that ensure none of Hertzfeldt’s work ever touches a computer.

In his tender 32 years, Hertzfeldt has had