Calarts Movies

A precious diamond is stolen and a chase ensues, but the thief's motivations are not so clear-cut.

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

After the lead of the school musical is rendered suddenly indisposed, her understudy has a few moments before she has to step up and fill her shoes.

A penguin and a gorilla team up to lead the other animals in revolt against a zookeeper who just won't leave them alone in American director Nicole...

Inspired by Edogawa Ranpo’s novel, A Brute’s Love. The visual direction of this film is heavily influenced by Salvador Dalí,...

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

Once born from the same matter, two forms slowly grow into vastly different beings, suspended between attraction and resistance. As they merge and...

A toad bikes back home in order to water his plants.

Drawing Pictures of all sizes, shapes and black and white contort and reshape themselves to a cricket sounds.

a little boy had an Imaginary Friend was Richard Nixon.

One of two short films created and produced by Spongebob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg at CalArts in 1992.

In this hand-drawn animated farce, a young woman wakes in a frat house to discover a horrifying mistake she must conceal before her situationship...

An Animated short film by Jim Reardon

A Peking Opera troupe performs at North America for the first time. Xutian, Maomao, and Chengyuan have different feelings about their upcoming...

Two sisters fight a giant fish beast for a sweet cash reward!

Two men look at a woman. One wants her, the other one gets her.

A man pushes himself into tighter and tighter spaces as he attempts to escape his submarine.

“Phototaxis” draws parallels between Mothman, a prophetic and demonized creature in West Virginia lore, and Narcotics Anonymous, the main...

a group of friends attend an art gallery show at the recently finished Tower of Babel.