Movies: Calarts

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

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

"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 California Institute of the Arts. The film, released in 1975, went on to win the Student Academy Award f...

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

A horror musical about figuring yourself out....

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...

A teenage girl has to come to terms with her father whose fear and helplessness manifest in a need for control under the guise of for-your-own-good tough love....

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 short is about a purple dinosaur named Sigmund, who likes to bounce on top of trees. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011....

When a headstrong prince sabotages an important royal ceremony, his father sends him out into the world to set it right....

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

Surreal animation representing society's various rituals and practices....

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,...

Direct animation on 35mm....

God makes soup. The soup is (somewhat) intelligent life. Existential chaos ensues....

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

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

A kitten helps his father defeat a pack of marshmallows....

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....

A girl who’s tired of life finds refuge and passion within the gaming world. However, her will to fight only extends to her VR boxing matches, rather than the outside world....