Calarts Movies

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.

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

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

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

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...

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

"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...

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

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

a Geefwee Boedoe Cartoon made at CalArts

A sickly elephant father struggles to open a jar of aspirin.

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

A persistent possum's efforts to steal an apple from a greedy orchard owner.

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

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

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.

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...