School of Visual Arts

William Carmody is a successful, high profile writer living in LA. When a signing for his latest book brings him back home to Brooklyn for the first time in many years, he is forced to confront the life he left behind, and the people he would sooner forget. An adaptation of the Pete Hamill short story "The Book Signing."

"The Eyeball Chase" is Jeremie Duval's SVA Animation Thesis from 2007.

A man discovers a wire coming from his back and follows said wire to an outlet where it's plugged into.

On the eve of accepting a lucrative Wall Street job, a young musician wrestles with leaving his jazz band behind forever.

A Michael Ruocco Cartoon

A film by Brad Rose.

The senior thesis film of Elyssa DiGiovanni

It's time for finals again but Lita would rather do anything than her project. Leaving it for later won't be a bad idea, right?

Two siblings attempt to get along in a fictional black and white room.

About a boy and his teacher, Mr. Horzemen.

A thief attempts a museum heist in the middle of the night, only to encounter a peculiar tourist with a love for photography.

It's scorching hot and a breathless frog is delighted at finding a pond where to cool down. Its joy is short-lived as the pond happens to be a family pool and the family happens to be super-scared of frogs.

“The Moon Is Essentially Gray” is a 3-minute CG animated short about a young child, her makeshift rocket, and her fantastic flight to the moon. The film explores the role escapism plays in the lives of children who suffer some form of neglect or abandonment by their caregivers. It is ultimately about the struggle to gain (or regain) personal power, joy, and freedom.

Two toys fall in love in a clock.

An accidental encounter with an uninvited guest disrupts Alice's life. As her husband Tom's hidden secret gradually surfaces, Alice finds herself one of the bio-mechanical substitutes of his deceased wife.

Rebecca Sugar's thesis film from New York’s School of Visual Arts.

Caricature versions of George W. Bush and Colin Powell, each resembling nothing so much as a bobble head doll on a mission, rock out in a very funny send-up that manages to poke fun at the political powers that be, rock musicians of a certain ilk, and the music video genre itself.

A seemingly ordinary man seeks out a sagacious druggist in search of an undetectable poison, but winds up getting more than he bargained for.

A young plant girl named Lily experiences growing pains when she unexpectedly sprouts a mustache.

After an unknown apocalypse, our small protagonist searches for a seemingly unattainable item.