Movies: Calarts

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

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....

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

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....

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

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

"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...

“Phototaxis” draws parallels between Mothman, a prophetic and demonized creature in West Virginia lore, and Narcotics Anonymous, the main treatment program in West Virginia’s addiction epidemic....

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

The animals at the zoo are fed up with thier treatment and have dicided to take matters into thier own hands....

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

A frightened stray cat dreams of its time in the streets....

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....

Abstract light film...

The proprietress of a burger joint is retiring and her children must compete to see who is worthy of taking her place....

A bookish young woman may be under the influence of a siren's spell. Is this a source of terror, or of comfort?...

Based on late field biologist John Sincock's experiences in Kauai....

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

Black giants break classical architecture and rebuild them into Brutalistic structure....