CalArts

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

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.

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

Ten shots of skies.

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

"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 for animation and aired on NBC's The Midnight Special.

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

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

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.

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.

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