CalArts

A girl enters a battle to the death because she is in severe credit card debt.

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

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

A kitten helps his father defeat a pack of marshmallows.

A horror musical about figuring yourself out.

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

Sarah and her two cats go about their separate lives. The cats have strange dreams about their desires, and Sarah develops an unshakable paranoia that something is wrong with them. Sarah's paranoia bleeds into her social life, and her two cats have their dreams come true.

Ten shots of skies.

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

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

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.

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

Black giants break classical architecture and rebuild them into Brutalistic structure.

Slik Willy combines abstract animation, sound and spoken narration to tell a narrative story. The film uses hand-drawn animation and textures from 35mm transparencies. Final compositing was done using an optical printer.

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

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 sickly elephant father struggles to open a jar of aspirin.

The proprietress of a burger joint is retiring and her children must compete to see who is worthy of taking her place.