CalArts

A mother wolf breaks into a hunter's den and takes back her cub, only to find it a motionless trophy. She sings a lullaby hoping that the cub would finally sleep. Little does she know that a young hunter stalks them back from the den.

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

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

A girl revisits her ill grandfather.

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?

An experimental film portraying different skies in very long takes.

a little boy had an Imaginary Friend was Richard Nixon.

a Geefwee Boedoe Cartoon made at CalArts

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

A Cal Arts stop motion short in praise of good oral hygiene.

Short animation by Hanna Kim at Calarts

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

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.

After school, children should go home. However, sometimes new meetings and unexpected friendships change all plans.

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.

Two motorcycle-riding suitors square off in this hand-drawn retro tale of love and machismo. With its highly stylized characters and wonderful Looney Tunes sensibility, this piece presents a funny and jaundiced look at romance. Early student film by Disney veteran John Musker.

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.

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

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

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 Great Father" as he whittles the world into existence. Each of his wood shavings became fish, trees, birds,... even the sun and moon.