Puzzle & Sling: Boredom Killers

Anika Price's LCAD Experimental Animation Senior thesis film.

Spoiled Milk

When an emotionally abusive father reneges on a lifelong promise, a determined millennial is forced to choose between fighting for her relationship with her father or her freedom. 'Spoiled Milk' is about what it means to have an expiration date as a daughter and the invisible scars of emotional abuse.

Inocencia

Raquel, a fifteen years old girl, behaves in a strange and aggressive way with her surroundings. He does not speak or relate as he has always done. Nobody knows what's wrong with her and she doesn't tell anything.

The Story of Doctor Carver

The story of Dr. George Washington Carver (1864-1943), black educator and horticulturist. He is perhaps most well known for developing over 140 products from all parts of the peanut plant, including the shells and husks. He also developed products based on sweet potatoes and soybeans, and developed a cotton hybrid that was named after him.

Melodrama

Just Kids

Nine-year-old Alisha is tired of being the only girl on the rugby pitch, but after clashing with yet another boy unwilling to lose to her, she realises how important it is for her to keep playing.

La siesta

A girl wraps her grandmother in a spiral of fantasy, causing amnesia to her.

Wanderer

A conversation over dinner, between a married couple and a weary traveller, leads to unexpected revelations

Ballad for Billy the Kid

Timewarp

A young woman experiences the worst panic attack of her life as the world around her seems to be going faster and faster.

头条里的青春中国

Operator

A look at the experience of a crisis counselor and the shared humanity between a texter and operator.

Look at Life

Look at Life is a short student film by George Lucas, produced for a course in animation while Lucas was a film student at USC Film School. The film's running time of exactly one minute was required by the course. This was the first film made by George Lucas and was heavily influenced by Canadian filmmaker Arthur Lipsett.

Silence de Septembre (Chapitre 2) ou Quelques jours d'été d'après Chabouté

Dixieland (Chapitre 1)

Línea 9

In a city with constant movement like the subway rides, the paths of Andrés and Miguel are crossing. It seems like the beginning of a new Romance but Andrés doesn't know which direction to take.

My Paws Are Soft, My Bones Are Heavy

On this lonesome birthday, Johan tries to celebrate it as if his late mother is still here. Succumbing to his past, though in reality, there is only Paran, his best friend.

Daydream Therapy

Daydream Therapy is set to Nina Simone’s haunting rendition of “Pirate Jenny” and concludes with Archie Shepp’s “Things Have Got to Change.” Filmed in Burton Chace Park in Marina del Rey by activist-turned-filmmaker Bernard Nicolas as his first project at UCLA, this short film poetically envisions the fantasy life of a hotel worker whose daydreams provide an escape from workplace indignities. —Allyson Nadia Field

Ali Baba et les quarante voleurs

Unos Payasos Centavos