Movies: Calarts

A horror musical about figuring yourself out....

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

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?...

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

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....

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....

"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...

A polar bear is hunted by Eskimos. But suddenly the hunt gets interrupted. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive....

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

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....

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

In a war torn, industrialised, post apocalyptic city, a mysterious woman meets a young girl in an encounter that will change both thier lives forever....

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

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

A lamp causes a ruckus in the shop while the shopkeeper is away....

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...

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...

A girl who keeps growing extra fingers lives as a recluse due to bullying. When she sees a possible solution to her condition, it takes her on a path to a much different outcome....

A man deals with his looming madness....

Drawing Pictures of all sizes, shapes and black and white contort and reshape themselves to a cricket sounds....