Calarts Movies

A boy waits for his seat on a train at a platform in the middle of nowhere.

Bottom Feeders offers a glimpse into an imagined ecosystem generated from stream of consciousness doodlings. Divided by a barrier of fog, two disparat...

a Joe Ranft Cartoon

Emshwiller writes that the visually complex and densely textured Skin Matrix is a "video tapestry... a layering of different manifestations of energy:...

A story about a boy, born with a strange appearance, and his busy mother.

A cartoon character falls victim to various traditional pratfalls for no particular reason.

A man deals with his looming madness.

A music video about a robot that falls in love with an astronaut and spends his life with her trying to win her heart after they strand on a strange p...

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.

What are one week films? They're an assignment we do our first week back at CalArts, designed to dust off cobwebs by throwing us straight into the dee...

The emotion of people easily changes. It is not easy to define what emotion is. We just feel it. To feel emotion is like to observe nature because nat...

2018 short film

Direct animation on 35mm.

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

A teenage girl has to come to terms with her father whose fear and helplessness manifest in a need for control under the guise of for-your-own-good to...

A biracial boy living in India is dissatisfied with the cucumber sandwiches his mom makes for lunch every day.

Best friends Ian and Mike go mob hunting.

The Little Poet sits in the museum sketching, imagining what it would be like to live in a painting as a little girl and a little boy explore the brus...