Movies: Calarts

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?...

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

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

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....

Sarah and her two cats go about their separate lives. The cats have strange dreams about their desires, and Sarah develops an unshakable paranoia that something is wrong with them. Sarah's paranoia bleeds into her social life, and her two cats have t...

A teacher struggles to control a rumor spreading around his elementary school by one greedy child....

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 Joe Ranft Cartoon...

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

“[T]he sense of moving forward [in space or time] alternates with a sense of expansion and contraction, as the finished cycle [of movement] returns to itself and rushes to catch up with its successor.” (Gadassik) Preserved by the Academy Film Archi...

"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...

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 flesh-rotting zombie leads a support group for down and out monsters. Made at CalArts 2010....

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

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

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

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 toad bikes back home in order to water his plants....

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

Slik Willy combines abstract animation, sound and spoken narration to tell a narrative story. The film uses hand-drawn animation and textures from 35mm transparencies. Final compositing was done using an optical printer....