School of Visual Arts

The senior thesis film of Elyssa DiGiovanni

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

About a boy and his teacher, Mr. Horzemen.

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.

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

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

A duck convinces his reluctant dodo friend to join him on a flight in a homemade airplane, but the unstable trip quickly spirals into chaos, leading to disastrous results.

Desperate for fast cash, Briggs Sheridan finds work in the underground world of human trafficking. A routine child abduction goes awry when his final victim cries out for his guardian "Popsy." Mr. Sheridan learns the hard way that sometimes...debt is better.

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

A young woman spirals into anxiety and grief in surreal dream-like visions of her world collapsing.

The film centers on a solitary character who lives alone in an apartment, where strange, dreamlike events blur the lines between perception and reality. As the door closes behind him, multiple versions of himself emerge — each moving in unison yet representing fragments of his internal world.

“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.

Four prominent cartoonists, their individual creative processes, and their weekly lunches together.

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

A steamy New York Latino dance club ("where music sizzles and dancers mingle") is the atmospheric setting for this modernist film noir murder mystery. The central characters include, Jimmy Rey, the suave but offbeat observer of events, Rosa, a sultry dancer in a red sequin dress, and her boyfriend José, an intimidating gangster who cannot dance. Tempers flare when Rosa's former flame Guy Valdez arrives on the scene complete with entourage and much macho posing to challenge José to a knife fight. Later, Guy is stabbed to death by an unknown killer. Accompanying the action are the sensuously choreographed routines of the club's dancers

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 stop-motion animated short about a sleep deprived woman kept awake by her husband's snoring. As his snoring becomes worse, she finds herself literally sucked into his nose and must contend with monsters formed from his mucus.

Our man goes through a cosmic experience of a distorted time and space, and there he will meet Girl From Another Place.

Sibbie the dinosaur wants to get lunch, but her boss has some tasks for her to do first...