Content from CalArts

A housecat attempts to eat what he doesn't suspect is a piranha.

A sickly elephant father struggles to open a jar of aspirin.

This short is about a purple dinosaur named Sigmund, who likes to bounce on top of trees. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

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

At the end of the workday, the women of the city head to the bathhouse.

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.

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?

Intermittent Delight juxtaposes close-ups of batik textiles, fashion and design from the 1950s and 1960s, images of men weaving and women sewing in Ghana, and fragments of a Westinghouse 1960s commercial- aimed to instruct women on the how-to of refrigerator decoration.

Bloom Country adaptation

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

Sam is a vagabond who wanders through the city; trapped by a strong sense of inadequacy, he will meet various characters in a semi-surreal journey. Inspired by "Notes from the Underground" written by Fedor Dostoevskij.

This delightful story is simply about a boy wanting to go outside and play in the snow. After getting all bundled up by his mother, the boy has found that he is unable to move! Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

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 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.

A walking figure emerges from a changing, circular cycle; his inner self emerges and precipitats a series of violent struggles with himself, adapting various animal forms along the way. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

A man reacts with violence when a pair of eyes spy on him from inside a cardboard box.

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

The story of a starving third-world infant, set to a song by Harry Chapin. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

Beckett cycles through a limited number of drawings, but adds new information to each drawing every time we see it, giving the sense of a world that is infinitely rich and also obviously contained tightly within the edges of the paper. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2007.

Short animation by Hanna Kim at Calarts