Calarts Movies

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

Hopeless incel lesbian blog writer, Freya, educates her readers on how to find love in an ‘unbecoming’ age... whilst failing to find a love of her own...

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

A story of a recent graduate's perplexity and escape.

Two motorcycle-riding suitors square off in this hand-drawn retro tale of love and machismo. With its highly stylized characters and wonderful Looney...

A bird chases and teases a worm to Cole Porter's "Let's Misbehave" as sung by Irving Aaronson.

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

Sara is getting ready to go on a date with her new boyfriend, but Jessica, Sara's pet goldfish, notices something not quite right about him.

Music: Carl Stone. Colored pen-and-ink drawings, like topological maps of biomorphic objects, grow and evolve from the red star. Once the master image...

Sam is a vagabond who wanders through the city; trapped by a strong sense of inadequacy, he will meet various characters in a semi-surreal journey. In...

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

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

Alexis Lee is the star of the track team. She's fast, she's a heartbreak, and she's so, so pretty... Sunny must beat her at all costs.

Ardida is an experimental animation that combines 2D, 3D and rotoscopy from a satiric lens to critique neocolonialism, gender violence and the extract...

During its nearly four-minutes' running time, Raccoon and the Light follows the curious critter playing with the flashlight as he explores a dark fore...

Firework awakes a forest at night, and the night wood invites us to beautiful place where wood, owl, stream, and giraffe form a wonderful sight. Later...

The Little Poet sits in the museum sketching, imagining what it would be like to live in a painting as a little girl and a little boy explore the brus...

When a headstrong prince sabotages an important royal ceremony, his father sends him out into the world to set it right.

A rather musical romp ending in friendship.