CalArts

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 Reardon.

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

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 differently?

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

Ten shots of skies.

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.

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. The moving images, resembling woodcuts, capture the haunting, nightmarish quality of the tale of the ErlKing who steals and kills a little boy.

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.

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 Celisse and befriending a number of other members while under the watch of the cult's peculiar founder, Ascensia.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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