CalArts

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

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

Two store clerks slacking off at work (at a gas station) on Halloween go on an acid trip.

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.

Rachel Kim's third year student film

Little dude gets shredded.

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

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.

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

A sickly elephant father struggles to open a jar of aspirin.

An experimental film portraying different skies in very long takes.

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

Two brands of paper towels argue over who gets to clean up a spilled puddle of juice on the floor.

Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite as cookies! Each beat appears as its own cookie, with the notes arranged in a circle octave, and each instrument as a different color and flavor, Featuring the Dance of the Ingredients intermezzo. At the premiere of this movie, the audience ate the cast.

A hapless customer purchases Whatever You Want Land, a place that can be anything he wants with the snap of a finger.

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

"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.

An argument breaks out when three school friends take an adventurous shortcut on their way home.

At the end of the workday, the women of the city head to the bathhouse.

A ballet performance with special guests...