Animator Don Hertzfeldt is best left to speak for himself. In a blog entry from the end of last month, he writes, “At the risk of sounding overly humble, Everything Will Be OK has really been raking in the awards. Wait, that wasn’t humble at all. While I try not to place a lot of stock in awards, I do get tremendous satisfaction from crushing all the other filmmakers, seeing them driven into the ground before me and hearing the lamentation of their women.”

With Everything Will Be OK, the tongue-in-cheek animator uses monotony, eccentricity and depression to their best comic effect. It’s an initial laugh-out-loud ride that quickly forges into emotionally stark territory as main character Bill realizes that his life is more than a bit meaningless.

Set up on screen in multiple spotlighted sections, much of the humor of the film derives from unexpected juxtapositions, stick figure-esque representations of Bill putting his keys down, vacuuming the rug, going to the bathroom. These juxtapositions later flow to the chaotic, just flashes of color and pattern at times to define Bill’s increasingly unstable state of mind.

An ingenuis short in both its storytelling and art, Everything Will Be OK falls perfected into the theme of its production company moniker Bitter Films, yet its playful bitterness, the type to be taken seriously but also with a laugh at the dark ridiculousness of life.

For more information visit www.bitterfilms.com.

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