CalArts

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, along with lots of other painters the director admired over the years. In many ways, this film is a reflection of personal artistic evolution.

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

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

a little boy had an Imaginary Friend was Richard Nixon.

An Animated short film by Jim Reardon

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 Mitchell's comedic short film.

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

A walking figure emerges from a changing, circular cycle; his inner self emerges and precipitats a series of violent struggles with himself, adapting various animal forms along the way. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

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

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.

Two kids, Ximena and Angel, are on the hunt for the latest spicy chips!

CalArts film 2025 by Zechen Wang

A physical space in a film is always frozen within a small fragment of time - a frame. The artist dynamically explores each space as the frames become combined, transformed, rearranged, and repeated.

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

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 wakes up. As her panic escalates and every solution fails, the morning spirals toward an act of grotesque self-preservation.

A kid and his little traveling show roll into a small train town in 1895 California, only to find it may be harder to earn a penny than originally thought.

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

Claire Voyant is tired of working.