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?

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

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

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

A housecat attempts to eat what he doesn't suspect is a piranha.

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

An experimental film portraying different skies in very long takes.

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

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

Claire Voyant is tired of working.

This animated short is a visual representation of Goethe's poem, The ErlKing that uses sand-on-glass animation set to the music of Franz Schubert. The moving images, resembling woodcuts, capture the haunting, nightmarish quality of the tale of the ErlKing who steals and kills a little boy.

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

A man reacts with violence when a pair of eyes spy on him from inside a cardboard box.

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.

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.

a little boy had an Imaginary Friend was Richard Nixon.

Set in an abstraction of 1970s London, Amaranthine tells a tale of punks, betrayal and revenge.

When a girl at a party confronts a guy about his social anxiety, he starts to float in the air.

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 deep end. Our class theme was "square," and we had a lot of fun playing around with compositions inspired by East Asian graphic design.

A teenage girl has to come to terms with her father whose fear and helplessness manifest in a need for control under the guise of for-your-own-good tough love.