CalArts

A mother wolf breaks into a hunter's den and takes back her cub, only to find it a motionless trophy. She sings a lullaby hoping that the cub would finally sleep. Little does she know that a young hunter stalks them back from the den.

This animated short is a visual representation of Goethe's poem, The ErlKing that uses sand-on-glass animation set to the music of Franz Schubert. The moving images, resembling woodcuts, capture the haunting, nightmarish quality of the tale of the ErlKing who steals and kills a little boy.

a little boy had an Imaginary Friend was Richard Nixon.

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.

when Cuddle Bee meets a grumpy deer.

A girl revisits her ill grandfather.

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.”

After school, children should go home. However, sometimes new meetings and unexpected friendships change all plans.

A Cal Arts stop motion short in praise of good oral hygiene.

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

Short animation by Hanna Kim at Calarts

a Geefwee Boedoe Cartoon made at CalArts

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 Mitchell's comedic short film.

An experimental film portraying different skies in very long takes.

a Joe Ranft Cartoon

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

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

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

California Institute of the Arts student Madeline Sharafian created 'Omelette', an animated short film that centers on making food for someone you love. The short features a little dog and an overworked owner who can barely cook himself an omelette.