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

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 inspired by East Asian graphic design.

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 series of vignettes, set against a child's story of migrating from Ghana to the United States. The film uncovers the meaning behind the Akan term of endearment, me broni ba, which means “my white baby.”

The animals at the zoo are fed up with thier treatment and have dicided to take matters into thier own hands.

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

Abstract light film

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.

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

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, birds,... even the sun and moon.

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

Sara is getting ready to go on a date with her new boyfriend, but Jessica, Sara's pet goldfish, notices something not quite right about him.

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

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

“Phototaxis” draws parallels between Mothman, a prophetic and demonized creature in West Virginia lore, and Narcotics Anonymous, the main treatment program in West Virginia’s addiction epidemic.

A snow monkey tries to enjoy a bath.

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

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 their dreams come true.

Little dude gets shredded.

A woman gets progressively stressed out from her daily routine.