I didn’t know stick figures could make me wildly uncomfortable until Don Hertzfeldt’s strange animated sensations entered my life. Billy and his sentient balloon weirded me out with its wry violence, but I couldn’t stop watching. Through spoons and bananas, inner monologues and space exploration, Hertzfeldt consistently explores the fraught corners of the psyche and this human existence – and has racked up Oscar nominations while doing so. AFS presents an evening with the man himself, screening his latest short and various classics with commentary and questions galore. – Cat McCarrey
