Calarts Movies

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

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...

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

Black giants break classical architecture and rebuild them into Brutalistic structure.

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

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

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

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...

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...

“Phototaxis” draws parallels between Mothman, a prophetic and demonized creature in West Virginia lore, and Narcotics Anonymous, the main...

A bookish young woman may be under the influence of a siren's spell. Is this a source of terror, or of comfort?

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

Think your life is terrible? Wait until it ends. God has a sense of humor after all--but you won't like it, when He finally gets tired of putting up...