Movies: Calarts

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

Ten shots of skies....

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

Slik Willy combines abstract animation, sound and spoken narration to tell a narrative story. The film uses hand-drawn animation and textures from 35mm transparencies. Final compositing was done using an optical printer....

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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 differently?...

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...

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

Intermittent Delight juxtaposes close-ups of batik textiles, fashion and design from the 1950s and 1960s, images of men weaving and women sewing in Ghana, and fragments of a Westinghouse 1960s commercial- aimed to instruct women on the how-to of refr...

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....

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. The moving images, resembling woodcuts, capture the haunting, nightmarish quality of the tale of the Er...

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

Two motorcycle-riding suitors square off in this hand-drawn retro tale of love and machismo. With its highly stylized characters and wonderful Looney Tunes sensibility, this piece presents a funny and jaundiced look at romance. Early student film b...

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 Celisse and befriending a number of other members while under the watch of the cult's peculiar founder,...

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

An owl ponders loss and his place in the world....

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

California Institute of the Arts student Madeline Sharafian created 'Omelette', an animated short film that centers on making food for someone you love. The short features a little dog and an overworked owner who can barely cook himself an omelette....

Wanda is a short story of feline and feminine desire. In this delightful piece composed of video animation and live-action footage in Super and Video 8 the narrator reflects on the unrestrained behavior of her cat in heat....

Sam is a vagabond who wanders through the city; trapped by a strong sense of inadequacy, he will meet various characters in a semi-surreal journey. Inspired by "Notes from the Underground" written by Fedor Dostoevskij....