Movies: Calarts

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....

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?...

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...

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

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....

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

California Institute of the Arts student Madeline Sharafian created 'Omelette', an animated short film that centers on making food for someone you love. The short features a little dog and an overworked owner who can barely cook himself an omelette....

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

Semi based on real events......

The portrayal of the over masculine Minotaur and his transformation. A reimagination of Picasso’s 1937 print series, the Vollard Suite....

A girl enters a battle to the death because she is in severe credit card debt....

Giant robots, giant monsters, and an even giant(er) crush....

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

When you desperately search something important ......

A man deals with his looming madness....

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