Calarts Movies

Video art by Vibeke Sorensen made at Calarts in 1989

A Vietnamese-American household receives a surprise visit from a long-lost patriarch after he fails at a get-rich-quick scheme.

Noticing that the lines between the virtual world and reality are beginning to blur, a woman phones a support hotline.

A girl revisits her ill grandfather.

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

A cardboard world where monkeys steal pickles and buildings change themselves. The film is a visualization of the city's rapidly changing neighborhood...

When you desperately search something important ...

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

A bird chases and teases a worm to Cole Porter's "Let's Misbehave" as sung by Irving Aaronson.

A Birth of BrainFly is a surreal narrative dealing with the process of a person’s individuation in a mental scape. A journey through and into Self, th...

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 wo...

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

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 Mi...

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.

Stop-motion animated short produced as a film student graduation project at the Gobelins Animation School of Paris by Carlo Vogele, class of 2008, le...

A crocodile fears the procedure to remove his tooth but the dentist is just as afraid of the crocodile’s mouth.

Short animation by Hanna Kim at Calarts

UUFO consists of 6 short chapters/stories. Each describes a memory. Dealing with conflicting interpretations of China from the 1960s onwards, UUFO con...

“[T]he sense of moving forward [in space or time] alternates with a sense of expansion and contraction, as the finished cycle [of movement] returns to...

A lonely lighthouse keeper reunites with his lost star.