CalArts

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

The story of a starving third-world infant, set to a song by Harry Chapin. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

Hopeless incel lesbian blog writer, Freya, educates her readers on how to find love in an ‘unbecoming’ age... whilst failing to find a love of her own.

Two best friends (a 19-year-old girl and a 20-year-old horse man creature) living in a post-apocalyptic desert world venture into the desert for snacks and drinks to bring to an eclipse party.

Jamie Maxfield's graduate thesis project in Experimental Animation at California Institute of the Arts. A Silver Medal winner at the Student Academy Awards.

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

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

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

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 Joe Ranft Cartoon

A carefree millennial Helps his friend to move into the suburbs.

A flesh-rotting zombie leads a support group for down and out monsters. Made at CalArts 2010.

Music: Carl Stone. Colored pen-and-ink drawings, like topological maps of biomorphic objects, grow and evolve from the red star. Once the master image is formed, this continuously throbbing, pulsating sight is used to ring changes based on years of optical work. Music and picture work together to create a mood of ecstatic tranquility. The bright colors, beautiful music, surprise at the end, etc. make this a good film for young children. Awards: Sinking Creek Film & Video Festival, 1973; Washington National Student Film Festival, 1974; Brooklyn Independent Filmmakers Exposition, 1974; Vanguard Int'l Competition of Electronic Music for Film, 1974; Humboldt Film Festival, 1974. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2007.