Calarts Movies

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

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

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

Calarts Short

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

"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 mother wolf breaks into a hunter's den and takes back her cub, only to find it a motionless trophy. She sings a lullaby hoping that the cub would...

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 sickly elephant father struggles to open a jar of aspirin.

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

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

This animated short is a visual representation of Goethe's poem, The ErlKing that uses sand-on-glass animation set to the music of Franz Schubert....

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

A young gay couple enjoy a simple date at the aquarium.

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

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