Calarts Movies

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

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...

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

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

The film, Al Tudi Tuhak, is a creation story inspired by the art and mythology of the Northwest coast people. The story involves the creator, or "The...

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...

A snow monkey tries to enjoy a bath.

"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...

A Cal Arts stop motion short in praise of good oral hygiene.

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.

“Phototaxis” draws parallels between Mothman, a prophetic and demonized creature in West Virginia lore, and Narcotics Anonymous, the main...

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...

Little dude gets shredded.

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

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

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

Sarah and her two cats go about their separate lives. The cats have strange dreams about their desires, and Sarah develops an unshakable paranoia...

Slik Willy combines abstract animation, sound and spoken narration to tell a narrative story. The film uses hand-drawn animation and textures from...

A woman gets progressively stressed out from her daily routine.

A man in a grey, drab world is awakened to the beauty and happiness of the real world around him, as the spirits of nature take him on an adventure.