Calarts Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

"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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

A walking figure emerges from a changing, circular cycle; his inner self emerges and precipitats a series of violent struggles with himself, adapting...

California Institute of the Arts student Madeline Sharafian created 'Omelette', an animated short film that centers on making food for someone you...