Movies: Calarts

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....

Beckett cycles through a limited number of drawings, but adds new information to each drawing every time we see it, giving the sense of a world that is infinitely rich and also obviously contained tightly within the edges of the paper. Preserved by ...

A sickly elephant father struggles to open a jar of aspirin....

After school, children should go home. However, sometimes new meetings and unexpected friendships change all plans....

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 little boy had an Imaginary Friend was Richard Nixon....

a Geefwee Boedoe Cartoon made at CalArts...

An experimental film portraying different skies in very long takes....

At the end of the workday, the women of the city head to the bathhouse....

Short animation by Hanna Kim at Calarts...

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

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

Bob Scott cartoon...

One of two short films created and produced by Spongebob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg at CalArts in 1992....

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

The story of a starving third-world infant, set to a song by Harry Chapin. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015....

A teenage girl has to come to terms with her father whose fear and helplessness manifest in a need for control under the guise of for-your-own-good tough love....

Intermittent Delight juxtaposes close-ups of batik textiles, fashion and design from the 1950s and 1960s, images of men weaving and women sewing in Ghana, and fragments of a Westinghouse 1960s commercial- aimed to instruct women on the how-to of refr...

An overworked pianist fights to stay awake and celebrate the new year with his boyfriend....

After the lead of the school musical is rendered suddenly indisposed, her understudy has a few moments before she has to step up and fill her shoes....