Calarts Movies

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

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...

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...

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.

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

Tim Burton’s early animation of an octopus and a king.

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...

"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...

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 girl who keeps growing extra fingers lives as a recluse due to bullying. When she sees a possible solution to her condition, it takes her on a path...

A bird chases and teases a worm to Cole Porter's "Let's Misbehave" as sung by Irving Aaronson.

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

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...

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

A kid tries to pull off an epic heist, but things quickly spin out of control.

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

Set in an abstraction of 1970s London, Amaranthine tells a tale of punks, betrayal and revenge.

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