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.

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.

In a war torn, industrialised, post apocalyptic city, a mysterious woman meets a young girl in an encounter that will change both thier lives forever.

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

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.

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

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.

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

This animated short is a visual representation of Goethe's poem, The ErlKing that uses sand-on-glass animation set to the music of Franz Schubert. The moving images, resembling woodcuts, capture the haunting, nightmarish quality of the tale of the ErlKing who steals and kills a little boy.

Ten shots of skies.

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

Bill Kopp's Student Academy Award-winning animated short film from Calarts, 1984

An animated documentary film

A man enters an old public bathhouse and dream of his father while under the spell of the elevated temperatures.

An overworked pianist fights to stay awake and celebrate the new year with his boyfriend.

Tim Burton’s early animation of an octopus and a king.

Twins Lake and Lucas hate each others’ guts. One day after school, their sibling rivalry gets out of hand.

"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.