Calarts Movies

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

After receiving a VHS tape claiming she's a disciple of an alien species known as the "True Mothers," Amy joins a local UFO cult, donning the name...

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

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

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

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

a Geefwee Boedoe Cartoon made at CalArts

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