Movies: Calarts

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

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

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

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

Bloom Country adaptation...

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

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

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....

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

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 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?...

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....

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 ...

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

This animated short is a visual representation of Goethe's poem, The ErlKing that uses sand-on-glass animation set to the music of Franz Schubert. The moving images, resembling woodcuts, capture the haunting, nightmarish quality of the tale of the Er...

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

Sam is a vagabond who wanders through the city; trapped by a strong sense of inadequacy, he will meet various characters in a semi-surreal journey. Inspired by "Notes from the Underground" written by Fedor Dostoevskij....

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

When a girl at a party confronts a guy about his social anxiety, he starts to float in the air....