Calarts Movies

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

Inspired by Edogawa Ranpo’s novel, A Brute’s Love. The visual direction of this film is heavily influenced by Salvador Dalí,...

Drawing Pictures of all sizes, shapes and black and white contort and reshape themselves to a cricket sounds.

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

a little boy had an Imaginary Friend was Richard Nixon.

A precious diamond is stolen and a chase ensues, but the thief's motivations are not so clear-cut.

A penguin and a gorilla team up to lead the other animals in revolt against a zookeeper who just won't leave them alone in American director Nicole...

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

After the lead of the school musical is rendered suddenly indisposed, her understudy has a few moments before she has to step up and fill her shoes.

An Animated short film by Jim Reardon

A man pushes himself into tighter and tighter spaces as he attempts to escape his submarine.

A walking figure emerges from a changing, circular cycle; his inner self emerges and precipitats a series of violent struggles with himself, adapting...

Two sisters fight a giant fish beast for a sweet cash reward!

Claire Voyant is tired of working.

Sam is a vagabond who wanders through the city; trapped by a strong sense of inadequacy, he will meet various characters in a semi-surreal journey....

a group of friends attend an art gallery show at the recently finished Tower of Babel.

In this hand-drawn animated farce, a young woman wakes in a frat house to discover a horrifying mistake she must conceal before her situationship...

A toad bikes back home in order to water his plants.

A Vietnamese-American household receives a surprise visit from a long-lost patriarch after he fails at a get-rich-quick scheme.