CalArts

A man remembers his childhood memory of growing up with an annoying little sister in 1990s China. How would his life have been if things had gone differently?

At a summer sleepover, two best friends realize they may be connected by more than just friendship.

A child, who is afraid, of the dark forms a unique relationship with the objects that once frightened him.

A teacher struggles to control a rumor spreading around his elementary school by one greedy child.

This delightful story is simply about a boy wanting to go outside and play in the snow. After getting all bundled up by his mother, the boy has found that he is unable to move! Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

A lamp causes a ruckus in the shop while the shopkeeper is away.

A polar bear is hunted by Eskimos. But suddenly the hunt gets interrupted. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

When a girl at a party confronts a guy about his social anxiety, he starts to float in the air.

Charlie Brown is on the run from the Peanuts Gang after the Great Pumpkin puts a bounty on his head in this wild animated student short by Jim Reardon.

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.

Set in an abstraction of 1970s London, Amaranthine tells a tale of punks, betrayal and revenge.

Emma, a lonely old woman, reminisces of one of her childhood birthday parties.

A man deals with his looming madness.

Me Broni Ba is a lyrical portrait of hair salons in Kumasi, Ghana. The tangled legacy of European colonialism in Africa is evoked through images of women practicing hair braiding on discarded white baby dolls from the West. The film unfolds through a series of vignettes, set against a child's story of migrating from Ghana to the United States. The film uncovers the meaning behind the Akan term of endearment, me broni ba, which means “my white baby.”

A man in a grey, drab world is awakened to the beauty and happiness of the real world around him, as the spirits of nature take him on an adventure.

A child terminally becomes bad animation and is sent to an asylum of abandoned and lost cartoon characters.

Ten shots of skies.

After receiving a VHS tape claiming she's a disciple of an alien species known as the "True Mothers," Amy joins a local UFO cult, donning the name Celisse and befriending a number of other members while under the watch of the cult's peculiar founder, Ascensia.

A hapless customer purchases Whatever You Want Land, a place that can be anything he wants with the snap of a finger.

"Fame" was used as the soundtrack of an animated music video of the same title, directed by Richard Jefferies and Mark Kirkland while students at California Institute of the Arts. The film, released in 1975, went on to win the Student Academy Award for animation and aired on NBC's The Midnight Special.