Calarts Movies

Not to be confused with the mitochondria, the powerhouse of the cell. This year's theme was "baby."

Your dog is always thinking about you and wants to get you a cold soda.

In a moment of turmoil, stress, and overwhelmment, Celly, the brain cell, escapes her body seeking excitement in the outside world, unaware that her body is in grave danger, if she doesn't take a break.

The result of a workshop at Calarts in January 2007 with Bruce Bickford, animator for many of Frank Zappa's films, including Baby Snakes. The animation was shot in a 'marathon' style over 36 hours, with each animator or group of animators having 4 hours to wor...

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

A young boy is pursued by a mysterious threat.

A culmination of experiences from growing up in Georgia...

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 finally sleep. Little does she know that a young hunter stalks them back from the den.

This short is about a purple dinosaur named Sigmund, who likes to bounce on top of trees. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

A spider lady takes her pug child for a walk.

Gym class can be tough. Someone is bound to lose an eye.

A cartoon character falls victim to various traditional pratfalls for no particular reason.

An affectionate cat tries to cheer up their owner one last time.

A lively roundelay of colourful food.

Four feathered childhood friends bond over their shared obsession with dinosaurs. One day, the pressures of growing up threaten to tear them apart.

When aliens attack Lev's spaceship, Lev realizes the only way to survive is to work together with her good-for-nothing roommate.

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 combined, transformed, rearranged, and repeated.

What are one week films? They're an assignment we do our first week back at CalArts, designed to dust off cobwebs by throwing us straight into the deep end. Our class theme was "square," and we had a lot of fun playing around with compositions inspired by East...

In this animated musical, the main character spends another one of her sleepless nights, contemplating what's been causing her life go off track-- or rather, WHO.

A teenage girl has to come to terms with her father whose fear and helplessness manifest in a need for control under the guise of for-your-own-good tough love.