Calarts Filmes

A film by Haiqing Qi

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

A lamp causes a ruckus in the shop while the shopkeeper is away.

Sarah and her two cats go about their separate lives. The cats have strange dreams about their desires, and Sarah develops an unshakable paranoia...

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

Two motorcycle-riding suitors square off in this hand-drawn retro tale of love and machismo. With its highly stylized characters and wonderful...

A playful short film following the story of a mech operator and his new co-pilot who remotely operate their mech using DDR-style foot controls. While...

A culmination of experiences from growing up in Georgia...

With some outside forces, a hiker realizes her unfortunate situation.

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

A girl enters a battle to the death because she is in severe credit card debt.

A horror musical about figuring yourself out.

In this adaptation of the ballet Giselle, our titular character wakes up dead, with no memories of her life or death.

An abstract animation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with the iotaCenter, in 2007.

A man remembers his childhood memory of growing up with an annoying little sister in 1990s China. How would his life have been if things had gone...

Music: Carl Stone. Colored pen-and-ink drawings, like topological maps of biomorphic objects, grow and evolve from the red star. Once the master...

A date goes wrong and then it goes really wrong.

Emma, a lonely old woman, reminisces of one of her childhood birthday parties.

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

A student is taught about the Nautilus and the Golden Rule.