Movies: Calarts

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

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 deep end. Our class theme was "square," and we had a lot of fun playing around with compositions inspir...

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

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

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 women practicing hair braiding on discarded white baby dolls from the West. The film unfolds through a...

Abstract light film...

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

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

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

The animals at the zoo are fed up with thier treatment and have dicided to take matters into thier own hands....

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 Reardon....

Sara is getting ready to go on a date with her new boyfriend, but Jessica, Sara's pet goldfish, notices something not quite right about him....

“Phototaxis” draws parallels between Mothman, a prophetic and demonized creature in West Virginia lore, and Narcotics Anonymous, the main treatment program in West Virginia’s addiction epidemic....

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

A snow monkey tries to enjoy a bath....

Sarah and her two cats go about their separate lives. The cats have strange dreams about their desires, and Sarah develops an unshakable paranoia that something is wrong with them. Sarah's paranoia bleeds into her social life, and her two cats have t...

Tonight, dinner starts with a slice of tomato....

A Cal Arts stop motion short in praise of good oral hygiene....

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 that he is unable to move! Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011....