Movies: Calarts

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....

Me Broni Ba is a lyrical portrait of hair salons in Kumasi, Ghana. The tangled legacy of European colonialism in Africa is evoked through images of women practicing hair braiding on discarded white baby dolls from the West. The film unfolds through a...

What are one week films? They're an assignment we do our first week back at CalArts, designed to dust off cobwebs by throwing us straight into the deep end. Our class theme was "square," and we had a lot of fun playing around with compositions inspir...

The film, Al Tudi Tuhak, is a creation story inspired by the art and mythology of the Northwest coast people. The story involves the creator, or "The Great Father" as he whittles the world into existence. Each of his wood shavings became fish, trees,...

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

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....

Calarts short...

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....

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 bookish young woman may be under the influence of a siren's spell. Is this a source of terror, or of comfort?...

Hopeless incel lesbian blog writer, Freya, educates her readers on how to find love in an ‘unbecoming’ age... whilst failing to find a love of her own....

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

A flesh-rotting zombie leads a support group for down and out monsters. Made at CalArts 2010....

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

A tour guide tries his best to stay on schedule....

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

Sam is a vagabond who wanders through the city; trapped by a strong sense of inadequacy, he will meet various characters in a semi-surreal journey. Inspired by "Notes from the Underground" written by Fedor Dostoevskij....