Calarts Movies

A free-falling take on expendable Ikea furniture, space consumption, and furniture names.

A physical space in a film is always frozen within a small fragment of time - a frame. The artist dynamically explores each space as the frames become...

Emshwiller writes that the visually complex and densely textured Skin Matrix is a "video tapestry... a layering of different manifestations of energy:...

“Phototaxis” draws parallels between Mothman, a prophetic and demonized creature in West Virginia lore, and Narcotics Anonymous, the main treatment pr...

Short animation by Aram Sarkisian at CalArts 2015

UUFO consists of 6 short chapters/stories. Each describes a memory. Dealing with conflicting interpretations of China from the 1960s onwards, UUFO con...

Sparky likes to gaze out of the window, to see every possible or impossible thing.

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 fi...

An animated short that follows 2 children and their pregnant mother as a typhoon descends on their home. As the storm worsens around them, the family...

A date goes wrong and then it goes really wrong.

Intermittent Delight juxtaposes close-ups of batik textiles, fashion and design from the 1950s and 1960s, images of men weaving and women sewing in Gh...

When you desperately search something important ...

An uncertain look into the boundary between non-human and human relationships, between technological advancements and the human body.

An aviator embarks on a wonderful journey in the sky.

A girl revisits her ill grandfather.

Abstract light film

A frightened stray cat dreams of its time in the streets.

Mom always braided my hair so tautly that it carved a distinct path atop my head. But one day, she cut off my braids. Along the path, I touched our u...

A young gay couple enjoy a simple date at the aquarium.

A man pushes himself into tighter and tighter spaces as he attempts to escape his submarine.