Calarts Movies

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

A young gay couple enjoy a simple date at the aquarium.

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

A woman gets progressively stressed out from her daily routine.

Sarah and her two cats go about their separate lives. The cats have strange dreams about their desires, and Sarah develops an unshakable paranoia...

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

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

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

Visit He visits a city. The city already forgot him. The city is still sinking in his dream. The flicking segments of real life and illusion. Only...

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...

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...

Stop-motion animated short produced as a film student graduation project at the Gobelins Animation School of Paris by Carlo Vogele, class of 2008,...

A snow monkey tries to enjoy a bath.

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.

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...