Calarts Movies

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

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

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

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...

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.

"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 tour guide tries his best to stay on schedule.

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

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

A Cal Arts stop motion short in praise of good oral hygiene.

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...

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

A polar bear is hunted by Eskimos. But suddenly the hunt gets interrupted.

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

Not to be confused with the mitochondria, the powerhouse of the cell. This year's theme was "baby."

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

A hapless customer purchases Whatever You Want Land, a place that can be anything he wants with the snap of a finger.

Short animation by Aram Sarkisian at CalArts 2015

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....