CalArts

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

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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 free-falling take on expendable Ikea furniture, space consumption, and furniture names.

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

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

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

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

A Birth of BrainFly is a surreal narrative dealing with the process of a person’s individuation in a mental scape. A journey through and into Self, the constructed labyrinths of Ego, and the creative transcendence of the mind's physical limitations. Birth of BrainFly charts a surreal course of a psyche's evolution within the invisible landscape of the mind. The visual landscape is made up of a mélange of experiments in collage, live action, hand drawn, paint on film and multi plane.

A persistent possum's efforts to steal an apple from a greedy orchard owner.

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.

One of two short films created and produced by Spongebob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg at CalArts in 1992.

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

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

Intermittent Delight juxtaposes close-ups of batik textiles, fashion and design from the 1950s and 1960s, images of men weaving and women sewing in Ghana, and fragments of a Westinghouse 1960s commercial- aimed to instruct women on the how-to of refrigerator decoration.