Calarts Movies

"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...

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

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

A horror musical about figuring yourself out.

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 kitten helps his father defeat a pack of marshmallows.

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

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 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...

Direct animation on 35mm.

A teenage girl has to come to terms with her father whose fear and helplessness manifest in a need for control under the guise of for-your-own-good...

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

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

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...

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

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

An exploration of shame and queer identity as it relates to technology and pornography

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