Calarts Movies

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

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

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

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...

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

A lamp causes a ruckus in the shop while the shopkeeper is away.

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

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 man enters an old public bathhouse and dream of his father while under the spell of the elevated temperatures.

A flesh-rotting zombie leads a support group for down and out monsters. Made at CalArts 2010.

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

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

Jamie Maxfield's graduate thesis project in Experimental Animation at California Institute of the Arts. A Silver Medal winner at the Student Academy...

Slik Willy combines abstract animation, sound and spoken narration to tell a narrative story. The film uses hand-drawn animation and textures from...

An animated documentary film

"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...

An overworked pianist fights to stay awake and celebrate the new year with his boyfriend.

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

A man reacts with violence when a pair of eyes spy on him from inside a cardboard box.