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Browse 40 movies from School of Visual Arts
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.
Oct 2020
About a boy and his teacher, Mr. Horzemen.
Sep 2018
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.
Aug 2009
A seemingly ordinary man seeks out a sagacious druggist in search of an undetectable poison, but winds up getting more than he bargained for.
May 2016
A man discovers a wire coming from his back and follows said wire to an outlet where it's plugged into.
Oct 1996
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.
Jun 2005
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."
Oct 2024
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.
Two toys fall in love in a clock.
May 1993
The senior thesis film of Elyssa DiGiovanni
May 2009
In the vast galaxy, there is one robot planet where natural life is extinct, where only machines and robots live. One day, one robot finds a piece of organic life in his world. He's very excited about his discovery and wants to preserve the organic specimen located in a dangerous and restricted area of the planet. Finally, he decides to rescue the organic specimen. Then his adventure begins.
May 2007
A low budget spoof of a Bergmannesque summer resort love triangle that ends with a surreal twist.
Jan 1989
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?
May 2020
On the eve of accepting a lucrative Wall Street job, a young musician wrestles with leaving his jazz band behind forever.
May 2023
A Michael Ruocco Cartoon
May 2011
"The Eyeball Chase" is Jeremie Duval's SVA Animation Thesis from 2007.
Apr 2007
Two siblings attempt to get along in a fictional black and white room.
Jul 2020
“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.
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.
May 2024
Feb 2026