Movies: Calarts

At a summer sleepover, two best friends realize they may be connected by more than just friendship....

Emma, a lonely old woman, reminisces of one of her childhood birthday parties....

A man remembers his childhood memory of growing up with an annoying little sister in 1990s China. How would his life have been if things had gone differently?...

Twins Lake and Lucas hate each others’ guts. One day after school, their sibling rivalry gets out of hand....

A housecat attempts to eat what he doesn't suspect is a piranha....

Tim Burton’s early animation of an octopus and a king....

A child, who is afraid, of the dark forms a unique relationship with the objects that once frightened him....

"Fame" was used as the soundtrack of an animated music video of the same title, directed by Richard Jefferies and Mark Kirkland while students at California Institute of the Arts. The film, released in 1975, went on to win the Student Academy Award f...

Charlie Brown is on the run from the Peanuts Gang after the Great Pumpkin puts a bounty on his head in this wild animated student short by Jim Reardon....

A bird chases and teases a worm to Cole Porter's "Let's Misbehave" as sung by Irving Aaronson....

The portrayal of the over masculine Minotaur and his transformation. A reimagination of Picasso’s 1937 print series, the Vollard Suite....

What are one week films? They're an assignment we do our first week back at CalArts, designed to dust off cobwebs by throwing us straight into the deep end. Our class theme was "square," and we had a lot of fun playing around with compositions inspir...

This short is about a purple dinosaur named Sigmund, who likes to bounce on top of trees. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011....

Calarts Short...

This delightful story is simply about a boy wanting to go outside and play in the snow. After getting all bundled up by his mother, the boy has found that he is unable to move! Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011....

A mother wolf breaks into a hunter's den and takes back her cub, only to find it a motionless trophy. She sings a lullaby hoping that the cub would finally sleep. Little does she know that a young hunter stalks them back from the den....

A child terminally becomes bad animation and is sent to an asylum of abandoned and lost cartoon characters....

The film, Al Tudi Tuhak, is a creation story inspired by the art and mythology of the Northwest coast people. The story involves the creator, or "The Great Father" as he whittles the world into existence. Each of his wood shavings became fish, trees,...

A man reacts with violence when a pair of eyes spy on him from inside a cardboard box....

Me Broni Ba is a lyrical portrait of hair salons in Kumasi, Ghana. The tangled legacy of European colonialism in Africa is evoked through images of women practicing hair braiding on discarded white baby dolls from the West. The film unfolds through a...