Calarts Movies

"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...

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

Bill Kopp's Student Academy Award-winning animated short film from Calarts, 1984

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...

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

A Vietnamese-American household receives a surprise visit from a long-lost patriarch after he fails at a get-rich-quick scheme.

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

A walking figure emerges from a changing, circular cycle; his inner self emerges and precipitats a series of violent struggles with himself, adapting...

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

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

Ten shots of skies.

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

Two motorcycle-riding suitors square off in this hand-drawn retro tale of love and machismo. With its highly stylized characters and wonderful...

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....

A man deals with his looming madness.

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

Think your life is terrible? Wait until it ends. God has a sense of humor after all--but you won't like it, when He finally gets tired of putting up...

The story of a starving third-world infant, set to a song by Harry Chapin.

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...

A penguin and a gorilla team up to lead the other animals in revolt against a zookeeper who just won't leave them alone in American director Nicole...