Don Hertzfeldt, the Academy-Award nominated animator, continues to work on his trilogy, which so far includes Everything Will Be OK (2006) and I Am So Proud of You (2008). The third segment is apparently in the works. Clips are hard to come by, but this summer a segment from I Am So Proud of You was revealed on YouTube. The short won Best Picture at the Fargo Film Festival.

The 2010 Sundance Film Festival starts on January 21st, and I spotted some interesting animated films included in the line-up. I don’t have a clip for the one I’m perhaps most excited about – Don Hertzfeldt’s latest film Wisdom Teeth, which I believe is loosely based on this comic strip he created a while back.

So here goes:

Let’s Harvest the Organs of Death Row Inmates – animated by Chris Weller

One Square Mile of Earth – by Jeff Drew

Rains by David Coquard-Dassault

This year’s Pictoplasma Pictopia event is upon us. Events run from the 17th of March to the 22nd, all centered at Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of World Cultures), which was designed by Hugh Stubbins Jr in the 1950s. The Speakers include Saiman Chow, James Jarvis and STUDIOaka’s Marc Craste, and there’s a vast animation line-up including Don Hertzfeldt’s Everything Will Be Ok, Jamie Hewlett’s piece for the BBC Journey To The East and David OReilly’s Please Say Something and Octocat Adventure. Speaking of David OReilly, here’s his Official Opening Animation clip, which is based on a concept he and event co-founder Peter Thaler dreamed up.

The 2009 Sundance Film Festival is upon us, and aside from excitement that my friend Doug Pray’s documentary, Art & Copy, made it in, I’m overloaded with animated shorts to watch. There’s two main animation categories – U.S. Animated Shorts and International Animated Shorts. Today, let’s see what’s cooking in the US of A. A number of these in past posts, which we’ll show you below, but they’re also screening Western Spaghetti from PES, Hot Dog from Bill Plympton and I Am So Proud of You by Don Hertzfeldt.

Field Notes From Dimension X: Oasis was directed by Carson Mell:

From Burger It Came was directed by Dominic Bisignano:

I Live In The Woods by Max Winston:

Later in the week, we’ll cover the International films. It’s animation overload!