Working a graveyard mailroom shift, a young actor learns life-long lessons from the melting-pot of racial diversity in the office.
Peter’s life has been spent in both fascination and fear of his quickening perception of time with age. As he nears the end of his days, his interest turns to obsession and he undertakes progressively extreme measures to control and counter time’s increasing pace.
An incredibly rich paper-based stop-motion film about the therapeutic powers of the Korean bathhouse from a CalArts student.
In a bland, ultilitarian world of rhythm and order, one worker finds his inner Jazz.
A boy is reborn with memories of his previous lives and tries to fix the mistakes of the past.
Observe the antics of a wolf trying to peacefully work in an office chock-full of plump and succulent sheep.
The Animation Workshop brings us a fully-realized world with strong visual metaphors about the pressures of responsibility.
One student’s daydream comes vividly to life during Biology class, in this Best Animation Winner from SXSW 2012
A sparse, metaphorical rotoscope animation that made waves at Ottawa, Annecy, and Stuttgart.
Buck can slow time to a crawl—How will he use his new power?—To impress a girl, of course. A slick 3D animation from France’s ESMA school.
The lonely world of a cat is told through a minimalist world constructed from 3D brushstrokes in this graduation film from the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design.
Keith’s typical day turns red in this violent stick figure animation with a larger message.
In a desolate land, greed overcomes self-preservation in this cautionary tale from an apprentice of stop-motion legend, Henry Selick.
Enjoy this innovative and gripping literary adaptation, a graduation animation from UCA Rochester.
A young monkey, initiated by his master, will pass his transition to adulthood. He will have to fight fire, metaphor for his fear of growing up, by taming the sound of the sacred djembe, symbol of independence.
A late night driver’s collision with a deer in the headlights takes a strange turn in this painterly 3D animation.
An acronym for “Let’s Get Fucked Up and Die”, this student work is purposely provocative in exploring the artist’s own feelings about growing up suburban.
Jason Reitman’s breakthrough short film follows Robert as he learns that it’s the little things in life that count the most.
Maximall means maximalism in this outrageous and gorgeous chase film that assaults your eyes.
A runaway train barrels through an every-changing abstract landscape in this experimental animation from the Bezalel Academy.
A night on the town turns deadly for three sentient plants, escaped from the botanical garden they called homed.
An ode to Disney “Princess” films, this 2010 Supinfocom short whimsically applies fairy-tale conventions to a modern romance gone stale.
German student Marius Herzog produced this incredible and lush gothic animation as his graduation film in 2009.
Your traditional student animation chase scene—Dutch-style. Evidently this means copious amounts of drugs and psychedelic imagery!
