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Watching Grass Grow

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The Don Hertzfeldt Collection • 04-Aug-2026

VHS time-lapse footage and rare pencil tests capture Don Hertzfeldt's progress animating The Meaning of Life in the early 2000s.

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The Don Hertzfeldt Collection, Watching Grass Grow, The Meaning of Life, dark comedy, existentialism, absurd, surreal, experimental, minimalism, melancholy, dreamlike, drawings, time lapse, behind the scenes

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