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

Tim Burton’s early animation of an octopus and a king.

The story of a starving third-world infant, set to a song by Harry Chapin.

The film, Al Tudi Tuhak, is a creation story inspired by the art and mythology of the Northwest coast people. The story involves the creator, or "The Great Father" as he whittles the world into existence. Each of his wood shavings became fish, trees, birds,... even the sun and moon.

Charlie Brown is on the run from the Peanuts Gang after the Great Pumpkin puts a bounty on his head in this wild animated student short by Jim Reardon.

A bookish young woman may be under the influence of a siren's spell. Is this a source of terror, or of comfort?

A kitten helps his father defeat a pack of marshmallows.

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 differently?

An animated short consisting of 4 segments: bowl, garden, theatre, marble game. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Harvard Film Archive in 2015.

Think your life is terrible? Wait until it ends. God has a sense of humor after all--but you won't like it, when He finally gets tired of putting up with your nonsense. Bill Kopp's award winning short animation from Calarts, 1983

Ten shots of skies.

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.

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

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

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

A man deals with his looming madness.

A rather musical romp ending in friendship.

Stop-motion animated short produced as a film student graduation project at the Gobelins Animation School of Paris by Carlo Vogele, class of 2008, leading to a career as a character animator at Pixar. It was selected as the winner of the Best Graduation Film award the following year at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.

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 deep end. Our class theme was "square," and we had a lot of fun playing around with compositions inspired by East Asian graphic design.

Not to be confused with the mitochondria, the powerhouse of the cell. This year's theme was "baby."