CalArts

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

Ten shots of skies.

An anxious young man struggles with whether or not to vandalize a rival school's mascot as part of a school prank.

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....

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 girl at a party confronts a guy about his social anxiety, he starts to float in the air.

A child terminally becomes bad animation and is sent to an asylum of abandoned and lost cartoon characters.

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

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

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