Horst in Translation ([email protected]) "Genre" is a 5-minutes animated short film by writer and director Don Hertzfeldt. He was not even 20, when he made this student film almost 20 years ago and he was rewarded by awards bodies all over the United States. Deservedly so. By the way, despite his young age, this was already his second work as a filmmaker. If you have seen some of his other films, you will immediately recognize his style and approach to animation. It's pretty unique. Here he uses an animated rabbit to give us an insight into all kinds movie genres. And it was very nicely done. Lots of wit and creativity included in these depictions and I also liked the way one genre changed into another (buddy movie into porn) for example. Hilarious. It's nice to see Hertzfeldt make new films these days. He hasn't done anything since 2012 I knew of, but i just saw that he made another short film this year. Maybe his style is not the best for full feature film, but that's not a problem in my opinion if he keeps bringing up new short films. I hope he will get an Oscar one day. it would be very deserved with his body of work and he is definitely among my favorite animators out there. I highly recommend "Genre".

Rectangular_businessman Clever exercise of experimental animation, directed by Don Hertzfeldt (The same director of brilliant shorts such as "Rejected" and "Everything will be OK") which explores several of the archetypes and conventions present in the different cinematic genres, parodying or even combining them through the main character of this short.The final result is something effective and memorable, which could be easily compared with some another animated masterpiece, "Duck Amuck", in the sense that both shorts explore in a fascinating, creative and hilarious way the differences of each genre and the relationship of one indecisive animator and its animated character.Both are brilliant and different at the same time, and both are outstanding examples of animation that have to be seen.10/10

ackstasis 'Genre (1996)' was produced while Don Hertzfeldt was still in college, and it certainly looks like an amateur film, particularly the stop-motion sequences featuring the animator himself. However – as was the case with 'Billy's Balloon (1998)' and 'Rejected (2000)' – Hertzfeldt proves that even simple animation can be very entertaining. 'Genre' draws plenty of inspiration from Chuck Jones' self-reflexive 'Duck Amuck (1953),' in which Daffy Duck is consistently pestered by the animator who is drawing him. In 'Genre,' an unfortunate rabbit finds himself in a succession of compromising (and often bloody) situations, as his creator experiments with different movie genres. As the frustrated animator begins to run out of ideas, he starts splicing genres together, leaving the poor rabbit to fend for himself in a "porno disaster film," for example. The most enjoyable element of Hertzfeldt's film is the self-awareness of the animated rabbit, who knows that the animator (his "God") is purposefully screwing him around, and is forced to simply wear it.

furvus-Ahto4353 Tummy-aching funny! The rabbit gets all of my sympathies, getting his ears ripped off, being fed Ebola carrots, abducted by little green aliens, etc... Don Hertzfeld's cartoons are so anarchistically (if there is such a word) funny that they can only be compared to someone like Tex Avery or Bill Plympton. There's a rabbit that has to go through a series of film genres, from romantic film to porno film etc.. and when the drawer runs out of imagination, he makes up his own genres, like sci-fi musical or porno disaster film... which the rabbit has to endure.If you watch this one, you must also see his "Ah, L'Amour" (absolutely hilarious, a guy innocently asks women for a date or not even that, just how are they doing, and gets flayed, chainsawed, stabbed in the eyeballs,etc), "Lily and Jim", and "Rejected"."Lily and Jim" is about a blind date gone horribly wrong... "Rejected" is supposed to contain some commercials that were commissioned by some companies from Don Hertzfeldt but rejected at sight..:D Which is not true, it's a fictional film, but very funny as such:D. "I live in a bucket!"